Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confirmation: Call for Adoption of "OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange" as an OAuth Working Group Item

Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> Mon, 11 August 2014 14:42 UTC

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From: Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 08:42:20 -0600
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confirmation: Call for Adoption of "OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange" as an OAuth Working Group Item
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I'd be okay with that as a way forward. Frankly, of course, I'd prefer to
see draft-campbell-oauth-sts as the starting point with Mike and the other
draft-jones-oauth-token-exchange authors added as co-authors. Regardless,
there are elements from both that likely need to end up in the final work
so a consolidation of authors and concepts makes sense.

And yes, there are lots of details that the working group will need to
decide on going forward that we shouldn't get hung up on right now. Though
I believe that deciding if the token endpoint is used for general token
exchange is an important philosophical question that should be answered
first. If the token endpoint is to be used, I strongly belie that this
token exchange should leverage and work within the constructs provided and
defined by OAuth. That's the direction I took with draft-campbell-oauth-sts
and yes that involves overloading the access_token response parameter with
something that's not always strictly an access token. The existing token
endpoint request/response are already rather close to what one might expect
in an STS type exchange. I find there's a nice elegant simplicity to it but
I also see where that discomfort might come from. If there's consensus to
not use/overload the existing stuff, I think it'd be much more appropriate
to define a new endpoint. A lot of syntactic stuff likely falls out from
that decision.