Hi Deb

We addressed all raised issues and published an update to Datatracker
earlier today [1].

Cheers

Pieter

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-cross-device-security/

On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM Pieter Kasselman <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks for the review and feedback Deb, especially for getting this out on
> Thanksgiving. Much appreciated.
>
> I have created issues for all the comments and will open PRs to address
> them. I'll drop you a note once that is done.
>
> Cheers
>
> Pieter
>
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM Deb Cooley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for this work.  It is clear, readable, and compelling. I was
>> already leery about QR codes, and now?
>>
>> Here are some minor comments followed by a list of nits:
>>
>> I did a quick idnits check (I used the v3 experimental one) and a couple
>> of things popped up which you need to fix.  Both Security Considerations
>> and IANA Considerations are required sections.  For IANA Con you should
>> say: “This document has no IANA actions.” For Security Considerations you
>> can do something similar, or you can do something different (maybe modify
>> the Conclusion?).  The other thing that popped up were some 'SHOULD not'
>> type language.  Obviously these should be 'SHOULD NOT'.
>>
>> Section 3, para 1, last sentence:  [this is very minor]  I had trouble
>> understanding the last phrase of this sentence.  Does 'before potentially
>> passing control between the two devices' mean the same thing?  The rest of
>> the para discusses transferring the session from device 1 to device 2, but
>> the last phrase of the last sentence reads like passing control from device
>> 2 back to device 1.  Or make it more clear that there are two
>> use cases.
>>
>> Section 6.1.1, physical connectivity (and others), last sentence:  This
>> appears to be tacked on to the end of this paragraph and it appears in more
>> than one section on proximity (not necessarily in the same form).  Can we
>> move it up into the first paragraph of Section 6.1.1 (perhaps adding a
>> paragraph there - before the mitigations)?   Maybe as a note, since this
>> section/set of mitigations are about the channel between Consumption Device
>> and Authorization Device (not the Authentication server).
>>
>> Section 6.1.15:  Isn't there a limitation where the Consumption Device
>> does not have sufficient input capabilities to support phishing resistant
>> auth mechanisms?  (this is stated in the first paragraph, but it is also
>> (?) a limitation.
>>
>> Nits:
>> Section 2, sentence 1:  protools/protocols
>> Section 2, para 1, last sentence:  writing/this specification (or this
>> writing)
>> Section 4, sentence 1:  typicaly/typically
>> Section 5, last para:  SHOULD not/SHOULD NOT
>> Section 6.1.7, para 2:  intractive/interactive
>>
>> Deb Cooley
>> Sec AD
>>
>
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