Hi John

thanks for the explanatian. Just to make sure I got you right. A prn can be a 
user_id. A prn is bound to the scope of an iss.

Regards,
Torsten.



John Bradley <ve7...@ve7jtb.com> schrieb:

>JWT is more generic than OIDC.
>
>prn and user_id as used by OIDC are similar.   user_id is already in
>wide use with Facebook's signed request.  
>We were hoping that Facebook would be more likely to migrate from
>signed request to JWT if the parameter names stayed the same for
>developers.
>
>In the generic case of a JWT the prn may not be a user.   
>
>The other discussion that I recall around prn was a notion that they
>are fully qualified and globally unique.
>
>We wanted to be clear with user_id that it is scoped to the iss and not
>globally unique.
>
>So a prn was seen as a User Principal name and the user_id was seen as
>a persistent non reassignable identifier for the user in the context of
>the iss.
>
>John B.
>
>
>On 2012-11-24, at 3:47 PM, Torsten Lodderstedt
><tors...@lodderstedt.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've got a few comments on your draft.
>> 
>> I’m wondering why neither acr nor auth_time (which are used in OIDC)
>made their way into this spec?
>> 
>> What is the difference between prn and the user_id claim OIDC uses?
>> 
>> regards,
>> Torsten.
>> 
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