Dear Kathleen, Dear IESG Secretary,

as a document shepherd I would like to bring four documents from the
OAuth working group to the attention of the IESG:

- draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-20
- draft-ietf-oauth-assertions-16        
- draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer-09        
- draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer-20      

Please find the write-ups attached to this mail.

Ciao
Hannes
Writeup for "Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and 
Authorization Grants" <draft-ietf-oauth-assertions-16>

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet 
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper 
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?

The RFC type is 'Standards Track' and the type is indicated in the title page. 
Although the document is architectural in nature it is the umbrella document 
for two other 'Standards Track' specifications that instantiate this document 
for use with SAML assertions and JSON Web Tokens. 

(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. 
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be 
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval 
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

This specification provides a framework for the use of assertions with OAuth 
2.0 in the form of a new client authentication mechanism and a new 
authorization grant type. Mechanisms are specified for transporting assertions 
during interactions with a token endpoint, as well as general processing rules.

The intent of this specification is to provide a common framework for OAuth 2.0 
to interwork with other identity systems using assertions, and to provide 
alternative client authentication mechanisms.

Note that this specification only defines abstract message flows and processing 
rules. In order to be implementable, companion specifications are necessary to 
provide the corresponding concrete instantiations. 

Working Group Summary:

Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there 
controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus 
was particularly rough?

This document has been submitted to the IESG before and was returned to the 
working group due to interoperability concerns. The working group has discussed 
those concerns and has worked on several iterations of the document to reduce 
the amount of optional functionality. 

Document Quality:

The working group decided to separate the framework for assertion handling from 
instance documents supporting SAML assertion and JSON-based encoded tokens. 
Readers who want to implement the functionality also need to consult one of the 
extension documents. 

Personnel:

The document shepherd is Hannes Tschofenig and the responsible area director is 
Kathleen Moriarty. 

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the 
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for 
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The draft authors believe that this document is ready for publication. The 
document has received review comments from working group members, the OAuth 
working group chairs, and from the IESG. These review comments have been taken 
into account. 

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of 
the reviews that have been performed?

This document has gotten feedback from the working group and given the focused 
use cases it has received adequate review. 

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader 
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or 
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

Since the OAuth working group develops security protocols any feedback from the 
security community is always appreciated. 

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has 
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be 
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of 
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any 
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still 
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

Although the document shepherd had concerns earlier with the document, they 
have been addressed in the meanwhile. 

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures 
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have 
already been filed. If not, explain why?

Yes, the authors (Chuck Mortimore <[email protected]>, Brian Campbell 
<[email protected]>, Mike Jones <[email protected]>, and 
Yaron Y. Goland <[email protected]>) have confirmed that they are not aware 
of any IPRs. 

(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, 
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

No IPR disclosures have been filed. 

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the 
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the 
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

The working group has consensus to publish this document. 

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? 
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the 
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this 
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No appeal or extreme discontent has been raised. 

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. 
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). 
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The shepherd has checked the nits. 

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such 
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

There is no such review necessary. 

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either 
normative or informative?

Yes. 

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for 
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references 
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

Yes. 

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, 
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call 
procedure.

No, there is no need for a downref. 

(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? 
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and 
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and 
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the 
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this 
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

The publication of this document does not change the status of other RFCs. 

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations 
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the 
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are 
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that 
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly 
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial 
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations 
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see 
RFC 5226).

The document adds three values to an existing registry established with RFC 
6749. 

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future 
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in 
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

The document only adds entries to existing registries and does not define any 
new registries. 

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd 
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML 
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

There are only snippets of message exchanges used in the examples; no pseudo 
code is contained in the document that requires validation. 
 
Writeup for "JSON Web Token (JWT)" <draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-20>

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet 
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper 
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?

The RFC type is 'Standards Track' and the type is indicated in the title page. 
This document defines the syntax and semantic of information elements. 
 
(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. 
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be 
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval 
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

   JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact URL-safe means of representing
   claims to be transferred between two parties.  The claims in a JWT
   are encoded as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object that is
   used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the
   plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the
   claims to be digitally signed or MACed and/or encrypted.
 
Working Group Summary:

Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there 
controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus 
was particularly rough?

This document was uncontroversial. It defines a standard JSON-based security 
token format, increasing interoperability both among OAuth deployments using it 
and in other application contexts as well. (ID tokens are specified in 
http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#IDToken)

Document Quality:

This document has gone through many iterations and has received substantial 
feedback. 

A substantial number of implementations exist, as documented at 
http://openid.net/developers/libraries/#jwt
(scroll down to the 'JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA Implementations' section)

An Excel document providing additional details can be found here: 
http://www.oauth-v2.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/JWT-Implementations.xlsx

Personnel:

The document shepherd is Hannes Tschofenig and the responsible area director is 
Kathleen Moriarty. 

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the 
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for 
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The document is ready for publication. The document has received review 
comments from working group members, and from the OAuth working group chairs. 
Implementations exist and they have tested for interoperability as part of the 
OpenID Connect interop events. 

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of 
the reviews that have been performed?

This document has gotten enough feedback from the working group. 

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader 
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or 
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

Since the OAuth working group develops security protocols any feedback from the 
security community is always appreciated. 
The JWT document heavily depends on the work in the JOSE working group since it 
re-uses the JWE and the JWS specifications. 

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has 
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be 
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of 
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any 
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still 
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

The shepherd has no concerns with this document. 

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures 
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have 
already been filed. If not, explain why?

The authors have confirmed that they do not have or that they are not aware of 
any IPR. 
Mike Jones: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12753.html
Nat Sakimura: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12747.html
John Bradley: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12671.html 

(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, 
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

Two IPRs have been filed for the JWT specification this document relies on, see 
http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&id=draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token
 

There was no discussion regarding those two IPRs on the mailing list. 

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the 
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the 
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

The working group has consensus to publish this document. 

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? 
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the 
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this 
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No appeal or extreme discontent has been raised. 

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. 
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). 
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The shepherd has checked the nits. The shepherd has not verified the examples 
for correctness. 

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such 
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

The document does not require a formal review even though it contains 
JSON-based examples. 

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either 
normative or informative?

Yes. 

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for 
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references 
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

There are various JOSE documents that have not been published as RFCs yet. As 
such, this document cannot be published before the respective JOSE documents 
are finalized. 

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, 
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call 
procedure.

RFC 6755 is a necessary downref. 

(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? 
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and 
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and 
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the 
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this 
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

The publication of this document does not change the status of other RFCs. 

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations 
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the 
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are 
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that 
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly 
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial 
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations 
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see 
RFC 5226).

The document creates a new registry for JWT claims and populates this registry 
with values. 
It also registers values into two existing registries, namely into 
 * the RFC 6755 created OAuth URN registry, and 
 * the media type registry 

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future 
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in 
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

The newly created JWT claims registry requires expert review for future 
allocations. Guidance is given in the document. 
The document shepherd and the author Michael Jones both volunteer to become 
expert reviewers.  Note that the document recommends that multiple expert 
reviewers be appointed, with the following text (which also appears in the JOSE 
documents):
 "
   It is suggested that multiple Designated Experts be appointed who are
   able to represent the perspectives of different applications using
   this specification, in order to enable broadly-informed review of
   registration decisions.  In cases where a registration decision could
   be perceived as creating a conflict of interest for a particular
   Expert, that Expert should defer to the judgment of the other
   Expert(s).
"  

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd 
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML 
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

There are examples in the document that use a JSON-based encoding. The document 
shepherd has reviewed those examples and verified them for correctness. 
Writeup for "JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication 
and Authorization Grants" <draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer-09>

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet 
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper 
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?

The RFC type is 'Standards Track' and the type is indicated in the title page. 
This document defines an instantiation for the OAuth assertion framework using 
JSON Web Tokens.
 
(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. 
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be 
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval 
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

   This specification defines the use of a JSON Web Token (JWT) Bearer
   Token as a means for requesting an OAuth 2.0 access token as well as
   for use as a means of client authentication.
 
Working Group Summary:

Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there 
controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus 
was particularly rough?

This document belongs to the OAuth assertion document bundle consisting of the 
abstract OAuth assertion framework, the SAML assertion profile, and the JWT 
assertion profile (this document). Due to the use of the JSON-based encoding of 
the assertion it also relies on the work in the JOSE working group (such as 
JWE/JWS) indirectly through the use of the JWT. This document has intentionally 
been kept in sync with the SAML-based version. 

Document Quality:

This document has gone through many iterations and has received substantial 
feedback. 

The following implementations are known:
* Microsoft Azure Active Directory:  
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/
* Google Service Account: 
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount
* Salesforce: 
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=remoteaccess_oauth_jwt_flow.htm&language=en_US
      
* Deutsche Telekom
* Adobe
* PingIdentity
* MITREid Connect
* Oracle 

It has to be noted that availability of many JWT implementations will have a 
positive impact on the future deployment of the JWT bearer assertion since the 
development effort is significantly reduced. 
        
Personnel:

The document shepherd is Hannes Tschofenig and the responsible area director is 
Kathleen Moriarty. 

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the 
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for 
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The document is ready for publication. The document has received review 
comments from working group members, and from the OAuth working group chairs. 
These review comments have been taken into account. 

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of 
the reviews that have been performed?

This document has gotten feedback from the working group and given the focused 
use cases it has received adequate review. 

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader 
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or 
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

Since the OAuth working group develops security protocols any feedback from the 
security community is always appreciated. 

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has 
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be 
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of 
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any 
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still 
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

The shepherd has no concerns with this document. 

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures 
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have 
already been filed. If not, explain why?

The authors have confirmed that they do not have or that they are not aware of 
any IPR. 
Mike Jones: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12640.html
Brian Campbell: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12653.html
Chuck Mortimore: 
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12674.html


(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, 
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

No IPR disclosures have been filed on this document. However, two IPRs have 
been filed for the JWT specification this document relies on, see 
http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&id=draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token
 

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the 
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the 
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

The working group has consensus to publish this document. 

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? 
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the 
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this 
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No appeal or extreme discontent has been raised. 

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. 
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). 
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The shepherd has checked the nits. 

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such 
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

There is no such review necessary. 

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either 
normative or informative?

Yes. 

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for 
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references 
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

Yes. There are normative references to two other OAuth documents, namely 
draft-ietf-oauth-assertions and draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token. The latter 
document has a dependency on documents in the JOSE working group. All documents 
will be submitted to the IESG roughly at the same time. 

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, 
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call 
procedure.

RFC 6755 defines the urn:ietf:params:oauth URN and is an Informational RFC. A 
downref is required. 


(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? 
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and 
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and 
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the 
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this 
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

The publication of this document does not change the status of other RFCs. 

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations 
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the 
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are 
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that 
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly 
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial 
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations 
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see 
RFC 5226).

The document registers two sub-namespaces to the urn:ietf:params:oauth URN 
established with RFC 6755. 

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future 
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in 
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

The document only adds entries to existing registries and does not define any 
new registries. 

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd 
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML 
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

There are only snippets of message exchanges and JWT assertion structures, 
which are based on JSON, used in the examples. There is no pseudo code 
contained in the document that requires validation. 
Writeup for "SAML 2.0 Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and 
Authorization Grants" <draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer-20>

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet 
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper 
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?

The RFC type is 'Standards Track' and the type is indicated in the title page. 
This document defines one protocol instantiation for the OAuth assertion 
framework. 
 
(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up. 
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be 
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval 
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

This specification defines the use of a SAML 2.0 Bearer Assertion as a means 
for requesting an OAuth 2.0 access token as well as for use as a means of 
client authentication.
 
Working Group Summary:

Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there 
controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus 
was particularly rough?

The OAuth assertion framework, which this document instantiates, has been 
submitted to the IESG before and was returned to the working group due to 
interoperability concerns. The working group has discussed those concerns and 
has worked on several iterations of the document to reduce the number of 
optional functionality. Along with the changes to the assertion framework 
document changes have been made to this document as well.

Document Quality:

The working group decided to separate the framework for assertion handling from 
instance documents. This document is one of those instance documents, which 
illustrates the use of SAML assertions with OAuth 2.0. Readers who want to 
implement the SAML assertion profile are required to also read the 
corresponding framework document. 

The document has gone through many iterations and has received substantial 
feedback. 

Implementations of the specification exist: 
 * Salesforce implementation: 
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=remoteaccess_oauth_SAML_bearer_flow.htm&language=en_US
 
 * PingIdentity implementation: 
http://documentation.pingidentity.com/display/PF71/SAML+2.0+Profile+for+OAuth+2.0+Authorization+Grants
http://documentation.pingidentity.com/display/PF71/STS+OAuth+Integration
 
Other implementations, according to a Google search, also seem to exist, such 
as from SAP 
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw74/helpdata/en/12/41087770d9441682e3e02958997846/content.htm
 
Personnel:

The document shepherd is Hannes Tschofenig and the responsible area director is 
Kathleen Moriarty. 

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the 
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for 
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The draft authors believe that this document is ready for publication. The 
document has received review comments from working group members, the OAuth 
working group chairs, and from the IESG. These review comments have been taken 
into account. 

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of 
the reviews that have been performed?

This document has gotten feedback from the working group and given the focused 
use cases it has received adequate review. 

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader 
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or 
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

Since the OAuth working group develops security protocols any feedback from the 
security community is always appreciated. 

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has 
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be 
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of 
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any 
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still 
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

Although the document shepherd had concerns earlier with the document, they 
have been addressed in the meanwhile. 

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures 
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have 
already been filed. If not, explain why?

Yes, the authors (Chuck Mortimore <[email protected]>, Brian Campbell 
<[email protected]>, and Mike Jones <[email protected]>) have 
confirmed that they are not aware of any IPRs. 

(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, 
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

No IPR disclosures have been filed. 

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the 
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the 
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

The working group has consensus to publish this document. 

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? 
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the 
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this 
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No appeal or extreme discontent has been raised. 

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. 
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). 
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The shepherd has checked the nits. 

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such 
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

There is no such review necessary. 

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either 
normative or informative?

Yes. 

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for 
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references 
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

Yes. 

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, 
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call 
procedure.

There are the following dependencies: 

* I-D.ietf-oauth-assertions: We submitted this document to the IESG together 
with this document. I-D.ietf-oauth-assertions is, however, a Standards Track 
document and no downref is needed. 

* RFC 6755 defines the urn:ietf:params:oauth URN and is an Informational RFC. A 
downref is required. 

* This document also references an OASIS standard, the SAML specification: 
OASIS.saml-core-2.0-os

(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? 
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and 
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and 
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the 
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this 
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

The publication of this document does not change the status of other RFCs. 

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations 
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the 
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are 
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that 
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly 
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial 
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations 
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see 
RFC 5226).

The document registers two sub-namespaces (URNs) to the urn:ietf:params:oauth 
URN established with RFC 6755. 

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future 
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in 
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

The document only adds entries to existing registries and does not define any 
new registries. 

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd 
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML 
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

There are only snippets of message exchanges and SAML assertion structures, 
which are based on XML, used in the examples. There is no pseudo code contained 
in the document that requires validation. 

The assertion example is meant as an illustration, it is well formed XML but is 
not schema valid because of the "[...omitted for brevity...]" shorthand in the 
signature element. 

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