Re: [GNAP] [Txauth] Revisiting the photo sharing example (a driving use case for the creation of OAuth)

Fabien Imbault <fabien.imbault@gmail.com> Thu, 13 August 2020 15:34 UTC

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From: Fabien Imbault <fabien.imbault@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 17:34:29 +0200
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Subject: Re: [GNAP] [Txauth] Revisiting the photo sharing example (a driving use case for the creation of OAuth)
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Indeed.

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:33 PM Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> wrote:

> A point I forgot to make below: the “front channel” isn’t going to exist
> for a lot of systems anymore, where interaction happens through an app or
> communication happens through some separate communication fabric. So there
> are cases, just like in OAuth 2, where there’s only a “back channel” and
> the other aspect of the AS never comes into play.
>
>  — Justin
>
> On Aug 13, 2020, at 11:17 AM, Fabien Imbault <fabien.imbault@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Without surprise, +1 to differentiate between the back-channel and the
> front-channel.
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 5:15 PM Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> Denis, I want to focus on one point here:
>>
>> In OAuth 2.0, the user consent is performed by the AS using an authorize
>> endpoint where the user consent is solicited and captured.
>>
>> Since a user, with no prior experience, shall first connect to a RS to
>> perform an operation, the user consent shall be performed by the RS,
>> instead of the AS. This means that we should define a "consent" endpoint
>> at the RS.
>>
>>
>> One of my goals with XYZ’s design was to be able to separate the
>> interaction with the user from the web-based flows for the delegation
>> protocol, and that aspect is enshrined in the GNAP charter as well.
>>
>> It points to the reality that there are two different aspects of the
>> traditional AS that we might need to talk about separately now. One deals
>> with delegation, issuing tokens, returning data directly to the client (not
>> through a separate API, since that’s the RS), and other back-channel stuff.
>> The other aspect deals with interacting with the user and/or resource
>> owner.
>>
>> We already saw bits of this in OAuth 2: the AS is defined by the pair of
>> the token endpoint and authorization endpoint, each filling the respective
>> roles above. What if we formally separate these? Strawman names:
>>
>>
>> Delegation Server (DS) - handles the back-channel stuff
>>
>> Interaction Server (IS) - handles the front-channel stuff
>>
>>
>>  — Justin
>>
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