For example, even Facebook calls this stuff "Privacy Policy URL".

On 07/08/2014 02:43 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
> policy_uri came down from OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registraiton 1.0
> [1]. 
> 
> It goes: 
> 
> policy_uri
>     OPTIONAL. URL that the Relying Party Client provides to the End-User
>     to read about the how the profile data will be used. The value of
>     this field MUST point to a valid web page. The OpenID Provider
>     SHOULD display this URL to the End-User if it is given. If desired,
>     representation of this Claim in different languages and scripts is
>     represented as described in Section 2.1
>     
> <http://openid.bitbucket.org/openid-connect-registration-1_0.html#LanguagesAndScripts>.
> 
> It is clearly privacy related. In fact, it used to be a part of OpenID
> Connect Core in which the RP had to send it to obtain the permission. It
> is optional only because in certain enterprise type setting, it is
> unnecessary. In the consumer case, I regard it as essential. In any
> case, this is something a trust framework should set as its rule, and
> not the protocol itself. 
> 
> The draft -18 text goes: 
> 
> policy_uri
>       URL that points to a human-readable Policy document for the
>       client.  The authorization server SHOULD display this URL to the
>       end-user if it is given.  The policy usually describes how an end-
>       user's data will be used by the client.  The value of this field
>       MUST point to a valid web page.  The value of this field MAY be
>       internationalized, as described in Section 2.2 
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-18#section-2.2>.
> 
> 
> It has been converted to be a bit vague. I would +1 to tighten it up.
> Note that there is tos_uri to describe the Terms of Service by the
> client and poicy_uri is not intended for this purpose but only for the
> service/client's privacy policy. 
> 
> BTW, I just found that a lot of text are more or less the duplicate or
> re-statement of [1]. IMHO, it should try to refer the original document
> where possible as it is a referable standard, and put [1] in the
> Reference section as well. 
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Nat
> 
> [1] http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0.html
> 
> 
> 2014-07-08 21:10 GMT+09:00 Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>>:
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     two earlier reviews I have noticed that the policy_uri meta-data
>     attribute is not correctly specified. I offered a suggestion and in both
>     cases my request was ignored.
> 
>     Maybe there is a reason to reject my request but I am uncertain about
>     the relationship with another meta-data attribute, the terms-of-service
>     attribute.
> 
>     Here is what I said in my last review:
>     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12879.html
> 
>     "
>     policy_uri: In my previous review I argued that the right terminology
>     here is privacy notice and you can even re-use the IAPP terminology.
>     Unless the policy URI has nothing to do with privacy I would prefer this
>     terminology change. If you disagree I would prefer to have a
>     description about what policy means in this context.
>     "
> 
>     Could you guys explain?
> 
>     Ciao
>     Hannes
> 
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> 
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> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
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