Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth Milestone Update and Rechartering

[Justin Richer <[e-mail]>]

I agree with Brian and object to the Authentication work item. I think there’s limited interest and utility in such a draft, especially now that OpenID Connect has been published and its core authentication capabilities are identical to what was called for in the other draft a year ago (a similarity, I’ll add, which was noted at the time). 

 — Justin

On May 14, 2014, at 8:24 AM, Brian Campbell <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I would object to 'OAuth Authentication' being picked up by the WG as a work item. The starting point draft has expired and it hasn't really been discusses since Berlin nearly a year ago.  As I recall, there was only very limited interest in it even then. I also don't believe it fits well with the WG charter.
> 
> I would suggest the WG consider picking up 'OAuth Symmetric Proof of Possession for Code Extension' for which there is an excellent starting point of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-tcse-03 - it's a relativity simple security enhancement which addresses problems currently being encountered in deployments of native clients.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> you might have seen that we pushed the assertion documents and the JWT
> documents to the IESG today. We have also updated the milestones on the
> OAuth WG page.
> 
> This means that we can plan to pick up new work in the group.
> We have sent a request to Kathleen to change the milestone for the OAuth
> security mechanisms to use the proof-of-possession terminology.
> 
> We also expect an updated version of the dynamic client registration
> spec incorporating last call feedback within about 2 weeks.
> 
> We would like you to think about adding the following milestones to the
> charter as part of the re-chartering effort:
> 
> -----
> 
> Nov 2014 Submit 'Token introspection' to the IESG for consideration as a
> Proposed Standard
> Starting point: <draft-richer-oauth-introspection-04>
> 
> Jan 2015 Submit 'OAuth Authentication' to the IESG for consideration as
> a Proposed Standard
> Starting point: <draft-hunt-oauth-v2-user-a4c-01>
> 
> Jan 2015 Submit 'Token Exchange' to the IESG for consideration as a
> Proposed Standard
> Starting point: <draft-jones-oauth-token-exchange-00>
> 
> -----
> 
> We also updated the charter text to reflect the current situation. Here
> is the proposed text:
> 
> -----
> 
> Charter for Working Group
> 
> 
> The Web Authorization (OAuth) protocol allows a user to grant a
> third-party Web site or application access to the user's protected
> resources, without necessarily revealing their long-term credentials,
> or even their identity. For example, a photo-sharing site that
> supports OAuth could allow its users to use a third-party printing Web
> site to print their private pictures, without allowing the printing
> site to gain full control of the user's account and without having the
> user share his or her photo-sharing sites' long-term credential with
> the printing site.
> 
> The OAuth 2.0 protocol suite encompasses
> 
> * a protocol for obtaining access tokens from an authorization
> server with the resource owner's consent,
> * protocols for presenting these access tokens to resource server
> for access to a protected resource,
> * guidance for securely using OAuth 2.0,
> * the ability to revoke access tokens,
> * standardized format for security tokens encoded in a JSON format
>   (JSON Web Token, JWT),
> * ways of using assertions with OAuth, and
> * a dynamic client registration protocol.
> 
> The working group also developed security schemes for presenting
> authorization tokens to access a protected resource. This led to the
> publication of the bearer token, as well as work that remains to be
> completed on proof-of-possession and token exchange.
> 
> The ongoing standardization effort within the OAuth working group will
> focus on enhancing interoperability and functionality of OAuth
> deployments, such as a standard for a token introspection service and
> standards for additional security of OAuth requests.
> 
> -----
> 
> Feedback appreciated.
> 
> Ciao
> Hannes & Derek
> 
> 
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