A good while back in an off list conversation about Token Exchange, Chuck
Mortimore mentioned that they "had a use-case for custom claims in where
they essentially wanted to carry along metadata about a client or device
for association to objects in our cloud." As a result of that conversation
I added the bullet item to the Open Issues section that says, "Provide a
way to include supplementary claims or information in the request that
would/could potentially be included in the issued token.", which has just
been kinda sitting there ever since with no action being taken on it.

I recently had the opportunity to see Chuck present about some work that
they are doing for IoT, which utilizes a number of items from this WG
including Token Exchange. It turns out that they were able to accommodate
that use-case of expressing metadata about a client or device by using the
actor_token.  There's a paper about the work at
https://www.salesforceidentity.info/Using_Asset_Tokens.pdf if anyone is
interested in more details.

Because the use-case behind that open issue is met by the existing
constructs of the document, I'm proposing that no new parameters or tokens
be introduced and that the open issue be removed and considered done in the
next revision of the Token Exchange draft. Please speak up soon, if you
believe this is a mistake.

Thanks,
Brian
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