The PuSHEE project is getting to the point of us building in an
authentication and authorization layer to the system, and we're planning
to build this around OAuth2. I would like to gather comments from the
PuSH community in how to move this forward. I saw an initial draft on
adding in OAuth support and a content-agnostic discovery mechanism, and
we'd like to help move both of these forward, since they're both
problems that we need to solve. 

We're looking at several authentication points:

* Client to hub: is this client allowed to read this feed?
* Feed to hub: Is this hub allowed to ping this hub?
* Hub to feed: Is this hub allowed to broadcast this feed?

The first two are fairly easy, but the third gets tricky, and we're
looking at using JWT formatted OAuth tokens to allow for easy remote
checking on feed publisher's side, or by implementing the proposed OAuth
token check endpoint that's being passed around.

How many of these can replace existing auth checks in the PuSH spec,
like the hub reply nonce and secrets? Seems like we might be able to
move some of this into a profile of OAuth instead of something built
just for PuSH. This is to say nothing of the signing mechanism, which
could use EHL's OAuth2 MAC proposal or Magic Signatures.

We're also looking at building an API for registering feeds to a hub
which would require auth as well. The question here is whether this
ought to be rolled into PuSH or just stand as a separate PuSHEE API.

 -- Justin

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