Sharing a media type only makes sense if there's a way to disambiguate. So the "typ" header would have to be mandatory.
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Manger, James H < [email protected]> wrote: > Why have separate media types for JWS and JWE? > Wouldn’t it be better to have one media type for the > dot-separated-base64url serialization of a JOSE message — regardless of > whether the content was unprotected, signed, MACed, encrypted with any of > the supported options, or any future algorithm? > > application/jose > > A second media type for the separate serialization is useful. > > application/jose+json > > -- > James Manger > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > jose issue tracker > > Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 7:06 AM > > To: [email protected]; > > [email protected] > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: [jose] #22: JSON Serialization media types not consistent with > > RFC 6839 > > > > #22: JSON Serialization media types not consistent with RFC 6839 > > > > The JSON Serialization media types "application/jwe-js" and > > "application /jws-js" are not consistent with RFC 6839. > > > > * "application/jwe-js" should be "application/jwe+json" > > * "application/jws-js" should be "application/jws+json" > > > > -- > > -------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > - > > -------------------------+--- > > Reporter: | Owner: draft-ietf-jose-json-web- > > [email protected] | [email protected] > > Type: defect | Status: new > > Priority: minor | Milestone: > > Component: json-web- | Version: > > encryption | Keywords: > > Severity: Active WG | > > Document | > > -------------------------+--------------------------------------------- > > - > > -------------------------+--- > > > > Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/jose/trac/ticket/22> > > jose <http://tools.ietf.org/jose/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > jose mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose > _______________________________________________ > jose mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose >
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