Registering the names provides clarity on use and avoids confusion on the
meaning of a claim — ie two specs won’t have conflicting definitions of
“htm”

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:20 AM Warren Parad <wparad=
40rhosys...@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> I think the registration really helps with discovery, especially as an
> implementer. When you see or observe these claims in a JWT, you can google
> them potentially returning no results. If you know about the IANA registry
> you can find them, even if you don't know that the tokens have anything to
> do with DPoP.
>
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 6:21 PM Neil Madden <neil.mad...@forgerock.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The DPoP spec registers the “htm”, “htu”, and “ath” claims [1]. But do
>> these claims actually make sense outside of a DPoP proof? Presumably the
>> risk of naming collision within a DPoP proof is pretty small, so is there
>> any benefit to registering them rather than just using them as private
>> claims?
>>
>> (I guess I could ask the same question about lots of other entries in the
>> current registry at IANA, many of which look completely app-specific to me).
>>
>> [1]:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dpop#section-12.7
>>
>> — Neil
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