> HTTP Sig looks very promising, but it has not been adopted as a draft

Just to be clear, the HTTP Sig draft is an official adopted document of the 
HTTP Working Group since about a year ago. I would not have suggested we depend 
on it for a document within this WG otherwise.

 — Justin

> On Oct 6, 2021, at 5:08 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I am not supportive of adoption of this document at this time. 
> 
> I am supportive of the concepts in the document. Building upon existing, 
> widely used, proven security mechanisms gives us better security.
> 
> HTTP Sig looks very promising, but it has not been adopted as a draft, and as 
> far as I know, it is not widely deployed.
> 
> We should wait to do work on extending HTTP Sig for OAuth until it has 
> stabilized and proven itself in the field. We have more than enough work to 
> do in the WG now, and having yet-another PoP mechanism is more likely to 
> confuse the community at this time.
> 
> An argument to adopt the draft would be to ensure HTTP Sig can be used in 
> OAuth.
> Given Justin and Annabelle are also part of the OAuth community, I'm sure 
> they will be considering how HTTP Sig can apply to OAuth, so the overlap is 
> serving us already.
> 
> /Dick
> 
> 
> ᐧ
> 
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:04 PM Aaron Parecki <aa...@parecki.com 
> <mailto:aa...@parecki.com>> wrote:
> I support adoption of this document.
> 
> - Aaron
> 
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2021 at 2:02 PM Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <rifaat.s.i...@gmail.com 
> <mailto:rifaat.s.i...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> All,
> 
> As a followup on the interim meeting today, this is a call for adoption for 
> the OAuth Proof of Possession Tokens with HTTP Message Signature draft as a 
> WG document:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richer-oauth-httpsig/ 
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richer-oauth-httpsig/>
> 
> Please, provide your feedback on the mailing list by October 20th.
> 
> Regards,
>  Rifaat & Hannes
> 
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