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

Bill Burke <bburke@redhat.com> Fri, 28 July 2017 15:06 UTC

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