Hi, the Online Media Authorization Protocol (OMAP) is a (as yet unreleased) profile of OAuth 2.0 for online delivery of video content based on a user's subscriptions (the TV Everywhere use case)

We want to support both server & native mobile clients. It is for the second class of clients that I'd appreciate some clarification of 'confidentiality' as defined in OAuth 2.

OAuth 2 distinguishes confidential & public clients based on their ability to secure the credentials they'd use to authenticate to an AS - confidential clients can protect those credentials, public clients can't.

Notwithstanding the above definition, the spec gives a degree of discretion to the AS

   The client type designation is based on the authorization server's
   definition of secure authentication and its acceptable exposure
   levels of client credentials.


Give this discretion, is itpractical for the OMAP spec to stipulate that 'All Clients (both server & native mobile), MUST be confidential', ie let each individual OMAP AS specify its own requirements of clients and their ability to securely authenticate?

Is this consistent with the OAuth definition of confidentiality?

Thanks

Paul









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