Poll-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP
draft-ietf-secevent-http-poll-01
Network Working Group A. Backman, Ed.
Internet-Draft Amazon
Intended status: Standards Track M. Jones, Ed.
Expires: April 25, 2019 Microsoft
M. Scurtescu
Coinbase
M. Ansari
Cisco
A. Nadalin
Microsoft
October 22, 2018
Poll-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP
draft-ietf-secevent-http-poll-01
Abstract
This specification defines how a series of Security Event Tokens
(SETs) may be delivered to an intended recipient using HTTP POST over
TLS initiated as a poll by the recipient. The specification also
defines how delivery can be assured, subject to the SET Recipient's
need for assurance.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction and Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. SET Delivery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Polling Delivery using HTTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. Polling HTTP Request Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.3. Polling HTTP Response Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4. Poll Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.4.1. Poll Only Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4.2. Acknowledge Only Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.4.3. Poll with Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4.4. Poll with Acknowledgement and Errors . . . . . . . . 10
2.5. Poll Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.6. Error Response Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3. Authentication and Authorization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.1. Use of Tokens as Authorizations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.1. Authentication Using Signed SETs . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.2. HTTP Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.3. TLS Support Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.4. Access Token Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.4.1. Bearer Token Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix B. Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
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