On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 03:40:34AM +0000, Mike Jones wrote:
> I did a complete read of 
> draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-13<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-13>.
>   My review comments follow, divided into substantive and editorial sections.
> 
> SUBSTANTIVE
> 
[...]
> 
> 4.8.1.1. Metadata - This section suggests the use of a "resource_servers" 
> metadata value.  This isn't defined by RFC 8414 nor do I see it the IANA 
> OAuth Authorization Server Metadata registry at 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/oauth-parameters/oauth-parameters.xhtml#authorization-server-metadata.
>   Is this something that's been standardized elsewhere?  If so, please add a 
> citation.  If not, please clearly say that this metadata value is not 
> standardized, and is therefore unlikely to be interoperable.

I would go further and say that we should not document "best practices"
that involve non-standardized values.

> 4.8.1.1. Metadata - This section suggests the use a 
> "access_token_resource_server" token response value.  Please likewise clearly 
> say that this parameter isn't a standard.

(ditto)

[...]
> 4.8.1.3. Audience Restricted Access Tokens - Delete "basically".
> 
> Many locations - The draft often uses the word "which" when you mean "that".. 
>  For instance, in 4.9.2, please change "which could" to "that could" and in 
> 4.11 change "which are" to "that are".  There's lots of places to look up the 
> difference in meaning, but a rule of thumb that's usually right is that if 
> you don't have a comma before the "which", it should probably be "that".

The RFC Editor uses a "restrictive" vs. "non-restrictive" split for "that"
and "which" -- see https://www.rfc-editor.org/styleguide/tips/ .

-Ben (no hats)

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