Then how about the ACE Constrained Token (ACT)?

 — Justin

> On May 10, 2016, at 10:14 AM, Phil Hunt (IDM) <phil.h...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't have this issue. I see your point, but I think the constrained 
> branding makes it clear. 
> 
> IOW. When the specs say "constrained web" the use means to me that the tokens 
> for the constrained set of binary protocols which all tend to be in parallel 
> architecture with web apis anyway.  
> 
> Phil
> 
> On May 10, 2016, at 05:57, Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu 
> <mailto:jric...@mit.edu>> wrote:
> 
>> You’re missing my original complaint: Until this token can be directly 
>> encoded into web technologies, like HTTP headers and HTML pages, then it has 
>> no business being called a “Web” anything. As it is, it’s a binary encoding 
>> that would need an additional wrapper, like base64url perhaps, to be placed 
>> into web spaces. It can be used in CoAP and native CBOR structures as-is, 
>> which is what it’s designed to do. 
>> 
>> The “web” part of JWT is very important. A JWT can be used, as-is, in any 
>> part of an HTTP message: headers, query, form, etc. It can also be encoded 
>> as a string in other data structures in just about any language without any 
>> additional transformation, including HTML, XML, and JSON. This makes the JWT 
>> very “webby”, and this is a feature set that this new token doesn’t share. 
>> Ergo, it has no business being called a “web” token regardless of its 
>> heritage. 
>> 
>> Both CBOR Token and COSE Token are fine with me. 
>> 
>>  — Justin
>> 
>>> On May 10, 2016, at 3:50 AM, Mike Jones <michael.jo...@microsoft.com 
>>> <mailto:michael.jo...@microsoft.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I also feel strongly that the name should remain CBOR Web Token.  CWT is a 
>>> beneficiary of the intellectual and deployment heritage from the Simple Web 
>>> Token (SWT) and JSON Web Token (JWT).  CWT is intentionally parallel to 
>>> JWT.  The name should stay parallel as well.
>>>  
>>> The “Web” part of the “CBOR Web Token” name can be taken as a reference to 
>>> the Web of Things (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Things 
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_Things>).  As Erik correctly points 
>>> out JSON is not the only data representation that makes things in the Web 
>>> and the Web of Things.
>>>  
>>>                                                           -- Mike
>>>   <>
>>> From: Ace [mailto:ace-boun...@ietf.org <mailto:ace-boun...@ietf.org>] On 
>>> Behalf Of Erik Wahlström
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 1:44 AM
>>> To: Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu <mailto:jric...@mit.edu>>
>>> Cc: Kathleen Moriarty <kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:kathleen.moriarty.i...@gmail.com>>; Kepeng Li 
>>> <kepeng....@alibaba-inc.com <mailto:kepeng....@alibaba-inc.com>>; 
>>> a...@ietf.org <mailto:a...@ietf.org>; Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org 
>>> <mailto:c...@tzi.org>>; Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net 
>>> <mailto:hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net>>; <oauth@ietf.org 
>>> <mailto:oauth@ietf.org>> <oauth@ietf.org <mailto:oauth@ietf.org>>; cose 
>>> <c...@ietf.org <mailto:c...@ietf.org>>
>>> Subject: Re: [Ace] [COSE] Call for adoption for 
>>> draft-wahlstroem-ace-cbor-web-token-00
>>>  
>>> Or keep the CBOR Web Token (CWT) for two major reasons:
>>> - To show the very close relationship to JWT. It relies heavily on JWT and 
>>> it's iana registry. It is essentially a JWT but in CBOR/COSE instead of 
>>> JSON/JOSE.
>>> - I would not say that JWT is the only format that works for the web, and 
>>> it's even used in other, non-traditional, web protocols. That means I don't 
>>> have a problem with the W in CWT at all. Why would JSON be the only web 
>>> protocol?
>>>  
>>> Then we also have one smaller (a lot smaller) reason, it's the fact that it 
>>> can be called "cot" just like JWT is called a "jot" and I figured that our 
>>> "cozy chairs" would very much like that fact because then it's essentially 
>>> a "cozy cot" :)
>>>  
>>> / Erik
>>>  
>>>  
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 2:49 AM, Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu 
>>> <mailto:jric...@mit.edu>> wrote:
>>> We can also call it the “COSE Token”. As a chair of the COSE working group, 
>>> I’m fine with that amount of co-branding.
>>> 
>>>  — Justin
>>> 
>>> > On May 9, 2016, at 9:31 AM, Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org 
>>> > <mailto:c...@tzi.org>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> draft-ietf-ace-cbor-token-00.txt;
>>> >
>>> > For the record, I do not think that ACE has a claim on the term "CBOR
>>> > Token".  While the term token is not used in RFC 7049, there are many
>>> > tokens that could be expressed in CBOR or be used in applying CBOR to a
>>> > problem.
>>> >
>>> > ACE CBOR Token is fine, though.
>>> > (Or, better, CBOR ACE Token, CAT.)
>>> >
>>> > Grüße, Carsten
>>> >
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