Okay.. I was thinking this could be used as a way to validate the token as
well. BTW even in this case shouldn't communicate the type of token to AS?
For example in the case of SAML profile - it could be SAML token..

Thanks & regards,
-Prabath

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote:

>  "valid" might not be the best term, but it's meant to be a field where
> the server says "yes this token is still good" or "no this token isn't good
> anymore". We could instead do this with HTTP codes or something but I went
> with a pure JSON response.
>
>  -- Justin
>
>
> On 02/06/2013 10:47 PM, Prabath Siriwardena wrote:
>
> Hi Justin,
>
>  I believe this is addressing one of the key missing part in OAuth 2.0...
>
>  One question - I guess this was discussed already...
>
>  In the spec - in the introspection response it has the attribute "valid"
> - this is basically the validity of the token provided in the request.
>
>  Validation criteria depends on the token and well as token type (
> Bearer, MAC..).
>
>  In the spec it seems like it's coupled with Bearer token type... But I
> guess, by adding "token_type" to the request we can remove this dependency.
>
>  WDYT..?
>
>  Thanks & regards,
> -Prabath
>
> On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote:
>
>>  Updated introspection draft based on recent comments. Changes include:
>>
>>  - "scope" return parameter now follows RFC6749 format instead of JSON
>> array
>>  - "subject" -> "sub", and "audience" -> "aud", to be parallel with JWT
>> claims
>>  - clarified what happens if the authentication is bad
>>
>>  -- Justin
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: New Version Notification
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>> To:
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>>
>> A new version of I-D, draft-richer-oauth-introspection-02.txt
>> has been successfully submitted by Justin Richer and posted to the
>> IETF repository.
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>> Filename:     draft-richer-oauth-introspection
>> Revision:     02
>> Title:                OAuth Token Introspection
>> Creation date:        2013-02-06
>> WG ID:                Individual Submission
>> Number of pages: 6
>> URL:             
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-richer-oauth-introspection-02.txt
>> Status:          
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richer-oauth-introspection
>> Htmlized:        
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-introspection-02
>> Diff:            
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-richer-oauth-introspection-02
>>
>> Abstract:
>>    This specification defines a method for a client or protected
>>    resource to query an OAuth authorization server to determine meta-
>>    information about an OAuth token.
>>
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> Prabath
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