Fair enough, Brian. For clarity, my sense of the action items is that I agreed
to do those actions based on feedback at the ad-hoc meeting and then people
would review the result – not that everything would be “done” after taking
those actions. I’ll still plan to act on that feedback.
I’d be glad to sit down with you and others in Prague, Brian, to work out how
to make sure your use cases are covered and the draft is as clear as it can be,
given its somewhat esoteric subject matter. Now that JWT and JOSE and the
OAuth Assertions specs are done and several others are nearly done, getting
back to this is a priority for me.
Cheers,
-- Mike
From: Brian Campbell [mailto:bcampb...@pingidentity.com]
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 11:29 AM
To: Mike Jones
Cc: John Bradley; oauth
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use case
Stating specific action items resulting from the ad-hoc meeting in Dallas like
that suggests some clear consensus was reached, which is not at all the case.
As I recall, several of us argued past one another for an hour or so and
decided to adjourn in order to go to the bar (okay, and dinner too - but mostly
beer).
The impression about reversal of terms, I think, comes from the text in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01#section-1.3
which hurts my head a little every-time I read it but does seems to confuse
things. The MSDN link<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748487.aspx>
John gave is much more to the point than WS-Trust (I don't believe WS-Trust can
be pointed to as a model of clarity). In the draft I wrote, I tried to take
Mike's text and clarify a distinction between impersonation and delegation with
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01#section-1.3 and then
also be very explicit about act-as vs. on-behalf-of in the parameter
definitions at
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01#section-2 in a manor
that was consistent with WS-Trust and the MSDN explanation. I could see value
in breaking with that shaky legacy and using new terms too. But I get the point
of trying to keep with the old also and potential for even more confusing by
using new terms.
I wrote draft-campbell-oauth-sts last year in response to the call for adoption
of jones-oauth-token-exchange (thread from the
archive<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg13305.html>).
Though I didn't try and stand in the way and indicated a willingness to
collaborate on things. With the expectation, of course, that the details would
differ from the -00s and -01s as work progressed. Folks seemed generally
amenable to
that<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg13308.html> at the
time but little has happened since then.
Phil's earlier point about the priory of this getting pushed down has some
truth to it. But I still believe it's something that can provide a lot of value
in standardizing, if we do so in a reasonable way.
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Mike Jones
<michael.jo...@microsoft.com<mailto:michael.jo...@microsoft.com>> wrote:
It would surprise me if on-behalf-of and act-as were reversed with respect
WS-Trust, because the explanations of the terms came directly from WS-Trust
1.4. I also think the chances of us reducing confusion by inventing new
terminology, rather than adding to it, would not be in our favor. :-/
FYI, the action items outstanding from our ad-hoc meeting on this draft in
Dallas are:
- Allowing security types other than JWT to also be used as the act_as and
on_behalf_of request values.
- Further integrating the mechanism into the existing OAuth ecosystem -
allowing use of access tokens or refresh tokens when appropriate.
I plan to do the first today. The second is probably more than I'll get done
today before the submission cutoff. I agree with John that it would be useful
to have discussions on this in Prague on the best way to achieve this further
integration. I'll plan to come into the Prague meeting with a concrete
proposal for review.
Best wishes,
-- Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: OAuth [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org>] On
Behalf Of John Bradley
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 8:13 AM
To: Brian Campbell
Cc: oauth
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use case
Yes unfortunately we haven’t made any progress on this since accepting Mike’s
first draft.
His proposal is basically for a new endpoint while Brian tired to fit it into
the existing token endpoint.
I think draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 still has OnBehalfOf and ActAs
reversed compared to WS-Trust 1.4.
see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748487.aspx for the short
explanation.
I think Brian is closer in explaining it.
In fairness because WS-Trust originally only had On-Behalf-Of the naming and
what people put in tokens is a bit muddled in many implementations.
I think many times it is how WIF implemented it that people copied.
It may be better to have new terms that are clear such as impersonation and
composite.
The WG needs to decide if this is going to be an entirely new endpoint, free of
the Token endpoint semantics. There are plusses and minuses to both options.
Also while it is nice to be pure and talk about abstract security tokens, it
would be good to give some guidance on what a composite security token would
look like for interoperability.
There are also issues around how this would work with proof of possession
security tokens, both as input and output.
Perhaps we can make some progress on this in Prague.
John B.
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Brian Campbell
> <bcampb...@pingidentity.com<mailto:bcampb...@pingidentity.com>> wrote:
>
> Thanks Sergey,
>
> The goal of draft-campbell-oauth-sts was to be consistent with OAuth 2.0 and
> thus hopefully familiar to developers and easy to understand and implement
> (especially from the client side). It's also intended to be flexible in order
> to accommodate a variety of use-cases including the chaining type cases that
> Justin's draft covers.
>
> Specifying a security_token_type of the returned token is just a way of
> providing more info to the client about the token (i.e. is this a JWT or a
> SAML token or something else) via a URI. It's not always needed but in STS
> style cases the tokens are not always opaque to the client and the parameter
> just provides info about the returned token.
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Sergey Beryozkin
> <sberyoz...@gmail.com<mailto:sberyoz...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Brian
>
> I've read the text, I like it is still pure OAuth2, with few extra parameters
> added to the access token request, and a key response property being
> 'access_token' as opposed to 'security_access_token' as in the
> draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01.
> It appears draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01 can cover a
> draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 case with the on_behalf_of (and/or act_as ?)
> property being an original client token but not 100% sure given
> draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 covers a specific case.
>
> One thing I'm not sure about is what is the purpose of specifying a
> security_token_type of the returned access token
>
> Thanks, Sergey
>
> On 01/07/15 15:59, Brian Campbell wrote:
> One problem, I think, with token exchange is that it can be really
> simple (token in and token out) and really complicated (client X wants
> a token that says user A is doing something on behalf of user B) at
> the same time.
>
> I put forth https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01 in
> an attempt to simplify things and express what I envisioned as an
> OAuth based token exchange framework. Though it likely only muddied
> the waters :)
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Sergey Beryozkin
> <sberyoz...@gmail.com<mailto:sberyoz...@gmail.com>
> <mailto:sberyoz...@gmail.com<mailto:sberyoz...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
>
> Hi Justin
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 is much
> easier to read, that I can tell for sure, at least it is obvious why
> a given entity (RS1) may want to exchange the current token provided
> by a client for a new token. Definitely easily implementable...
>
> One thing I'm not sure in the draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 about is
> on behalf of whose entity RS1 will be acting once it starts
> accessing RS2, On Behalf Of RO, or may be On Behalf Of (RO +
> Client), or may be it is On Behalf Of RO + Act As Client ? The last
> one seems most logical to me...
>
> Thanks, Sergey
>
>
> On 01/07/15 13:18, Justin Richer wrote:
>
> As it's written right now, it's a translation of some WS-*
> concepts into
> JWT format. It's not really OAuth-y (since the client has to
> understand
> the token format along with everyone else, and according to the
> authors
> the artifacts might not even be "OAuth tokens"), and that's my main
> issue with the document. Years ago, I proposed an OAuth-based
> token swap
> mechanism:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-chain-00
>
> This works without defining semantics of the tokens themselves, just
> like the rest of OAuth. I've proposed to the authors of the current
> draft that it should incorporate both semantic (using JWT) and
> syntactic
> (using a simple token-agnostic grant) token swap mechanisms, and
> that
> the two could be easily compatible.
>
> -- Justin
>
> On 7/1/2015 6:35 AM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>
> Hmm... perhaps the clue is in the draft title,
> token-exchange, so may
> be it is a case of the given access token ("on_behalf_of" or
> "act_as"
> claim) being used to request a new security token. One can
> only guess
> though, does not seem like the authors are keen to answer
> the newbie
> questions...
>
> Cheers, Sergey
>
>
> On 30/06/15 13:38, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Can you please explain what is the difference between
> On-Behalf-Of
> semantics described in the
> draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 and the
> implicit On-Behalf-Of semantics a client OAuth2 token
> possesses ?
>
> For example, draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 mentions:
>
> "Whereas, with on-behalf-of semantics, principal A still
> has its own
> identity separate from B and it is explicitly understood
> that while B
> may have delegated its rights to A, any actions taken
> are being taken by
> A and not B. In a sense, A is an agent for B."
>
> This is a typical case with the authorization code flow
> where a client
> application acts on-behalf-of the user who authorized
> this application ?
>
> Sorry if I'm missing something
>
> Cheers, Sergey
> On 25/06/15 22:28, Mike Jones wrote:
>
> That’s what
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01
> is
> about.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Mike
>
> *From:*OAuth
> [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org>
>
> <mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org>>] *On Behalf Of
> *Vivek
> Biswas
> -T (vibiswas - XORIANT CORPORATION at Cisco)
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:20 PM
> *To:* OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>
> <mailto:OAuth@ietf.org<mailto:OAuth@ietf.org>>
> *Subject:* [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use
> case
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am looking to solve a use-case similar to
> WS-Security On-Behalf-Of
>
> <http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/errata01/os/ws-trust-1
> .4-errata01-os-complete.html#_Toc325658980>
>
>
> with OAuth JWT Token.
>
> Is there a standard claim which we can define
> within the OAuth JWT
> which denote the On-behalf-of User.
>
> For e.g., a Customer Representative trying to create
> token on behalf of
> a customer and trying to execute services specific
> for that specific
> customer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Vivek Biswas,
> CISSP
>
> *Cisco Systems, Inc <http://www.cisco.com/>*
>
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>
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>
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