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Shepherd writeup
draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer

Writeup for "JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication
and Authorization Grants" <draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer-09>

(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet
Standard, Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper
type of RFC? Is this type of RFC indicated in the title page header?

The RFC type is 'Standards Track' and the type is indicated in the title page.
This document defines an instantiation for the OAuth assertion framework using
JSON Web Tokens.

(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up.
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval
announcement contains the following sections:

Technical Summary:

   This specification defines the use of a JSON Web Token (JWT) Bearer
   Token as a means for requesting an OAuth 2.0 access token as well as
   for use as a means of client authentication.

Working Group Summary:

Was there anything in WG process that is worth noting? For example, was there
controversy about particular points or were there decisions where the consensus
was particularly rough?

This document belongs to the OAuth assertion document bundle consisting of the
abstract OAuth assertion framework, the SAML assertion profile, and the JWT
assertion profile (this document). Due to the use of the JSON-based encoding of
the assertion it also relies on the work in the JOSE working group (such as
JWE/JWS) indirectly through the use of the JWT. This document has intentionally
been kept in sync with the SAML-based version.

Document Quality:

This document has gone through many iterations and has received substantial
feedback.

The following implementations are known:
* Microsoft Azure Active Directory: 
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/active-directory/ * Google Service
Account: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount *
Salesforce:
https://help.salesforce.com/HTViewHelpDoc?id=remoteaccess_oauth_jwt_flow.htm&language=en_US
* Deutsche Telekom * Adobe * PingIdentity * MITREid Connect * Oracle

It has to be noted that availability of many JWT implementations will have a
positive impact on the future deployment of the JWT bearer assertion since the
development effort is significantly reduced.

Personnel:

The document shepherd is Hannes Tschofenig and the responsible area director is
Kathleen Moriarty.

(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the
Document Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for
publication, please explain why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.

The document is ready for publication. The document has received review
comments from working group members, and from the OAuth working group chairs.
These review comments have been taken into account.

(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of
the reviews that have been performed?

This document has gotten feedback from the working group and given the focused
use cases it has received adequate review.

(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.

Since the OAuth working group develops security protocols any feedback from the
security community is always appreciated.

(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has
with this document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be
aware of? For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of
the document, or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any
event, if the WG has discussed those issues and has indicated that it still
wishes to advance the document, detail those concerns here.

The shepherd has no concerns with this document.

(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures
required for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have
already been filed. If not, explain why?

The authors have confirmed that they do not have or that they are not aware of
any IPR. Mike Jones:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12640.html Brian
Campbell: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12653.html
Chuck Mortimore:
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg12674.html

(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so,
summarize any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.

No IPR disclosures have been filed on this document. However, two IPRs have
been filed for the JWT specification this document relies on, see
http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?option=document_search&id=draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token

(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the
WG as a whole understand and agree with it?

The working group has consensus to publish this document.

(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent?
If so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this
questionnaire is publicly available.)

No appeal or extreme discontent has been raised.

(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document.
(See http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist).
Boilerplate checks are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.

The shepherd has checked the nits.

(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such
as the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.

There is no such review necessary.

(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either
normative or informative?

Yes.

(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for
advancement or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references
exist, what is the plan for their completion?

Yes. There are normative references to two other OAuth documents, namely
draft-ietf-oauth-assertions and draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token. The latter
document has a dependency on documents in the JOSE working group. All documents
will be submitted to the IESG roughly at the same time.

(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so,
list these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call
procedure.

RFC 6755 defines the urn:ietf:params:oauth URN and is an Informational RFC. A
downref is required.

(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs?
Are those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and
discussed in the introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and
Introduction, explain why, and point to the part of the document where the
relationship of this document to the other RFCs is discussed. If this
information is not in the document, explain why the WG considers it unnecessary.

The publication of this document does not change the status of other RFCs.

(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations
section, especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the
document. Confirm that all protocol extensions that the document makes are
associated with the appropriate reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that
any referenced IANA registries have been clearly identified. Confirm that newly
created IANA registries include a detailed specification of the initial
contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future registrations
are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been suggested (see
RFC 5226).

The document registers two sub-namespaces to the urn:ietf:params:oauth URN
established with RFC 6755.

(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future
allocations. Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in
selecting the IANA Experts for these new registries.

The document only adds entries to existing registries and does not define any
new registries.

(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd
to validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML
code, BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.

There are only snippets of message exchanges and JWT assertion structures,
which are based on JSON, used in the examples. There is no pseudo code
contained in the document that requires validation.
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