Re: [OAUTH-WG] Cross Platform Authentication - OAuth 2.0 Device Flow

[Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>]

Hi Michael,

thanks for dropping us a note since I was not aware of the EBU work.
It is always intesting to hear from other communities who have been able
to make use of OAuth for their use cases.

I will take a look at your specification to better understand what you
have been doing in your working group.

Ciao
Hannes

On 03/07/2016 09:43 AM, Barroco, Michael wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> 
> We are contacting you because we noticed that you recently restarted
> the work on OAuth 2.0 Device Flow. We are in the process of
> publishing an ETSI standard [1] specifying a protocol with very
> similar goals. This has been developed by an EBU (European
> Broadcasting Union) working group involving broadcasters, such as
> BBC, SRG-RTS, VRT, RTVE, TVP, Global Radio UK, and device
> manufacturers.
> 
> 
> Our work on the “Cross Platform Authentication” protocol targets
> media devices, such as connected TVs and radio receivers. It is based
> on the early OAuth 2.0 Device Flow draft, but includes additional
> features driven by broadcast industry requirements. These include:
> dynamic registration of clients, dynamic discovery of the
> authorization provider, and issuing of access tokens without
> requiring association with a user account in order to provide
> device-based authentication that does not require user sign-in or
> pairing. Our draft protocol specification is available here [2].
> 
> 
> Cross Platform Authentication also specifies several aspects left
> open to implementers in OAuth 2.0, such as endpoint URL paths, to
> facilitate interoperability. Also note that reference implementations
> are available [3].
> 
> 
> We would be very interested in working together with you to explain
> our design requirements and try to align our protocol designs.
> 
> 
> With best regards,
> 
> 
> The EBU Cross Platform Authentication group
> 
> https://tech.ebu.ch/cpa
> 
> 
> 
> [1]
> https://portal.etsi.org/webapp/WorkProgram/Report_WorkItem.asp?WKI_ID=47970
>
> 
> 
> [2] https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/tech/tech3366.pdf
> 
> [3] https://tech.ebu.ch/code/cpa 
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