Re: [OAUTH-WG] [token-exchange] exchanging between issuers/domains

In general, an instance of an AS/STS can only issue tokens from itself. The
audience/resource parameters tell the AS/STS where the requested token will
be used, which will influence the audience of the token (and maybe other
aspects). But the issuer of the requested token will be the AS/STS that
issued it. A cross domain exchange could happen by a client presenting a
subject_token from a different domain/issuer (that the AS/STS trusts) and
receiving a token issued by that AS/STS suitable for the target domain.

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com> wrote:

> Should probably have a "subject_issuer" and "actor_issuer" as well as the
> "requested_issuer" too.
>
> FYI, I'm actually applying this spec to write a token exchange service to
> connect various product stacks that have different and often proprietary
> token formats and architectures.
>
>
>
> On 7/26/17 6:44 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm looking at Draft 9 of the token-exchange spec.  How would one build a
>> request to:
>>
>> * exchange a token issued by a different domain to a client managed by
>> the authorization server.
>>
>> * exchange a token issued by the authorization server (the STS) for a
>> token of a different issuer and different client.  In other words, for a
>> token targeted to a specific client in a different authorization server or
>> realm or domain or whatever you want to call it.
>>
>> * exchange a token issued by a different issuer for a token of a
>> different issuer and client.
>>
>> Is the spec missing something like a "requested_issuer" identifier?
>> Seems that audience is too opaque of a parameter for the authz server to
>> determine how to exchange the token.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
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