[OAUTH-WG] dpop terminogly

Nikos Fotiou <fotiou@aueb.gr> Sun, 04 April 2021 21:15 UTC

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Hi I am wondering if the following terminology is more appropriate for the DPoP draft (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fett-oauth-dpop-04):
- Since a DPoP proof is a JWT encoded in a JWS may be it is better to say "DPoP proof payload" instead of "DPoP proof body" (end of page 4).
- For the same reason use "JOSE header" instead of "JSON header" (beginning of page 5)
- Moreover, here and there it is stated "the header of the JWT". AFAIU JWTs do not have headers themselves but the header is part of the JWS/JWE structure in which the JWT is encoded. So may be it is more appropriate to say "the JOSE header" instead of "the header of the JWT". 

Best,
Nikos

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Nikos Fotiou - http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/~fotiou
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