No objections. Simplification is better, and this spec is already fairly 
convoluted with all the options turned on.

 — Justin

> On Aug 26, 2016, at 1:30 PM, Brian Campbell <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Looking for two things here:
> 
> 1) Any objections to removing the want_composite request parameter? Please 
> explain, if so. I plan to remove it in the next draft barring an outpouring 
> of support to keep it.
> 
> 2) Tony to explain his use case and describe what changes would be needed to 
> accommodate it. 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Brian Campbell <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> During the meeting in Berlin Tony voiced concern about a use case he had for 
> token exchange. Honestly, it's still not entirely clear to me what that use 
> case is or what would need to change in support of it. I'd like to better 
> understand the use case and see if it's something that can reasonably be 
> accommodated with Token Exchange. During the meeting Tony referred back to an 
> earlier email where he said, "want_composite is not really the effect we are 
> looking for since it provides for a single token, the use case we have is 
> where you want the ability to use the subject_token and the actor_token in 
> combination and not as a composite of only the claims." 
> 
> The want_composite parameter came about during some iterative work on the 
> document (between I-D publications) last year. At first the client could 
> express that it wanted a composite token, one containing delegation 
> semantics, with the inclusion of the actor_token parameter. One of the other 
> editors suggested, however, that the actor_token token might be necessary for 
> authorization in cases even when the client wasn't asking for a composite 
> token and that placing the desire for delegation semantics on it was 
> overloading the parameter too much. I introduced the want_composite parameter 
> to give the client such a signal independent of the actor_token parameter. My 
> (admittedly incomplete) understanding of WS-Trust is that the 
> client/requester can make such an indication and I was trying to follow that 
> model. However, I'm not sure it's needed or even makes much much sense. 
> Ultimately it's the server's decision about how to construct the issued token 
> and what to include in it. It is the server's policy, not a client signal, 
> which makes the determination. So the want_composite parameter is really just 
> noise that makes the spec longer. And, from the quote above, seems might also 
> lead some readers to incorrect conclusions about what can and cannot be 
> returned in a token exchange. 
> 
> I'd propose then that the want_composite parameter be dropped from the 
> document. 
>  
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