I’ll incorporate this feedback into another draft, to be posted by the end of 
the week. Thanks everyone!

 — Justin

> On Feb 18, 2015, at 10:30 AM, Kathleen Moriarty 
> <kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:07 AM, John Bradley <ve7...@ve7jtb.com 
> <mailto:ve7...@ve7jtb.com>> wrote:
> snip
>> On Feb 18, 2015, at 6:46 AM, Kathleen Moriarty 
>> <kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com <mailto:kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com>> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> > The client_id *could* be short lived, but they usually aren't. I don't see 
>> > any particular logging or tracking concerns using a dynamic OAuth client 
>> > above using any other piece of software, ever. As such, I don't think it 
>> > requires special calling out here.
>> 
>> Help me understand why there should not be text that shows this is not an 
>> issue or please propose some text.  This is bound to come up in IESG reviews 
>> if not addressed up front. 
>> 
> 
> The client_id is used to communicate to the Authorization server to get a 
> code or refresh token.  Those tokens uniquely identify the user from a 
> privacy perspective. 
> It is the access tokens that are sent to the RS and those can and should be 
> rotated, but the client)id is not sent to the RS in OAuth as part of the 
> spec. 
> 
> If you did rotate the client_id then the AS would track it across rotations, 
> so it wouldn’t really achieve anything.
> 
> One thing we don’t do is allow the client to specify the client_id, that 
> could allow correlation of the client across multiple AS and that might be a 
> privacy issue, but we don’t allow it.
> 
> Thanks, John.  It may be helpful to add in this explanation unless there is 
> some reason not to? 
> 
> John B.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Best regards,
> Kathleen
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