Hi Kathleen,

> Section 3.6 - Can you explain why would this be included?  If you are not 
> going to sign, I am not sure why one would use JOSE at all. 
>  

Perhaps the most popular application of JWS today is to construct JSON
Web Tokens (JWT), such as the ID tokens in OpenID Connect. The JWT spec
permits plain tokens that don't have a signature and this is enabled by
the special case "none" alg in JWS.

Plaintext JWTs are explained here:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-19#section-6


Vladimir


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