Re: [Rats] CWT and JWT are good enough?

Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com> Mon, 16 September 2019 15:45 UTC

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From: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 11:44:45 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Rats] CWT and JWT are good enough?
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:30 AM Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com>
wrote:

> I’ve been trying to take the position to avoid even minor divergences from
> CWT and JWT in EAT. I wish there wasn’t inconsistency between the two,
> particularly in how the claims registry is handled. That inconsistency has
> already consumed many hours, even days, of this WG. There’s been some
> really long email threads about it.
>
> Fixing it only for EAT seems half-baked. Fixing it for all of CWT and JWT
> would have to go through those WGs. Seems like a lot of work. We have
> enough to do, so I’m inclined to live with it.
>

The COSE WG is the one the decided to diverge from lessons learned.  That
WG is open again, so if you'd like to pose this problem somewhere, that
would be the place to do it.  I'm guessing people thought one or the other
would be used, but not both resulting in this issue of inconsistency we are
seeing.

Best regards,
Kathleen


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Best regards,
Kathleen