Subject: Re: [Gen-art] [OAUTH-WG] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-14

From: Alissa Cooper <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 14:53:21 -0500

Jari, thanks for your review. Brian, thanks for your response. I flagged the issue Jari raises below in my DISCUSS ballot — it’s not clear to me why there aren’t normative requirements around confidentiality as there are in the JWT spec and the OAuth 2.0 spec.

Thanks,
Alissa

> On Aug 10, 2018, at 3:49 PM, Brian Campbell <bcampbell=[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the review Jari,
> 
> Regarding minimizing details, I'm thinking that incorporating some text along the lines of what's in the Privacy Considerations of RFC 7523 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7523#section-7> might be a worthwhile addition.  
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 7:49 AM Jari Arkko <[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:
> Reviewer: Jari Arkko
> Review result: Ready
> 
> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
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> Document: draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-14
> Reviewer: Jari Arkko
> Review Date: 2018-08-03
> IETF LC End Date: 2018-08-06
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> Summary:
> 
> This specification describes a standardised protocol for requesting and
> receiving security tokens from an OAuth 2.0 authorisation service.
> 
> I had no experience on OAuth previously, but the document was understandable
> and as far as I could determine, had no major issues.
> 
> It was a bit more difficult to determine completeness.  Security and privacy
> considerations sections were quite short, for instance, and maybe that's
> justifiable given the ability to refer to prior RFCs on this subject. However,
> I suspect one could say more, e.g., Section 7 says "Tokens typically carry
> personal information and their usage in Token Exchange may  reveal details of
> the target services being accessed", but it does not offer any advice on how
> such details might be minimised. But perhaps that's already in another RFC as
> well.
> 
> Major issues:
> 
> Minor issues:
> 
> Nits/editorial comments:
> 
> 
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