Re: [OAUTH-WG] [Txauth] Tx Auth BOF agenda items

Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> Mon, 28 October 2019 20:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] [Txauth] Tx Auth BOF agenda items
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The intended scope is to provide a transactional model for doing authorization delegation, not for authenticating a transaction itself. I can understand the confusion! Naming things is hard. 

 — Justin

> On Oct 28, 2019, at 1:55 PM, Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:39 AM Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com <mailto:dick.hardt@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hey OAuthers
> 
> As chair of the Tx BOF coming up in Singapore on Nov 18 @ 5:30-7:30PM	Monday Afternoon, I'm gathering who would be interested in making presentations, and how much time you would like. 
> 
> Is this BoF limited to authorization, or would something like end-to-end authentication of transaction request/response via a less trusted intermediary (e.g., an API gateway or CDN) for purposes of limiting transitive trust be in scope? I'm thinking of something akin to OSCORE-style transactions, but more general (e.g., not specific to constrained computing environments, not forcing the use of CBOR).
> 
> Thanks,
> Kyle
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