Well that’s what I’m saying — we could have had restrictions within JWK (and 
maybe even a different syntax) that would guarantee a unique key ID, as well as 
ways to talk about it from the outside. 

 — Justin

> On Jan 15, 2020, at 3:53 PM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov <vladi...@connect2id.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 14/01/2020 04:25, Justin Richer wrote:
>> It would’ve been nice if JWK could’ve agreed on a URL-based addressing
>> format for individual keys within the set, but that ship’s sailed.
> 
> For querying / selecting JWKs from a set this would have been a useful
> addition to the spec.
> 
> But I don't see how such an URL can help us to identify a single JWK in
> a set, given the possibility to have multiple JWKs with the same "kid".
> 
> I.e. if we do "https://example.com/jwks.json?kid=xyz";, there is no
> guarantee for a single key. Even if we add additional query params, like
> use, alg, etc, none of them guarantees a unique JWK identification.
> 
> I like the utility of that though.
> 
> Vladimir
> 
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