I am very supportive of this work and have been working through different use 
cases to see whether it can satisfy the requirements that arise from them.



One observation from working through these uses cases is that as customers move 
to Zero Trust architectures, we are seeing customers adopting finer grained 
policy segmentation. Consequently customers are planning to deploy segmented 
access control by data or action sensitivity, within a service. This approach 
to policy design makes it more common for a single service to depend on 
multiple authentication context values or combinations of authentication 
context values.



An example of this is a policy that has multiple acr values (e.g. 
acr1=password, acr2=FIDO, acr3=selfie check, acr4=trusted network). A customer 
may define a policy that requires different combinations of these acr values, 
for example, a file server may requires password for general access (e.g. 
acr1), FIDO authentication (acr2) or password access and being on a trusted 
network to read sensitive data (acr 2 of (acr1 + acr 4), FIDO authentication 
and password (acr1 + acr2) for accessing editing sensitive documents and a 
real-time selfie check on top of FIDO and presence on a trusted network  (acr1 
+ acr2 + acr3 + acr4) to initiate a sensitive workflow (e.g. check-in code). 
Other variations of this includes database access with different types of 
access requirement for certain rows (row-level permissions) or columns (column 
level permissions) with different combinations of acr values.



I was curious if this type of scenario where multiple authentication contexts 
and combinations of contexts are required is something others see (or are 
beginning to see) as well?

Cheers

Pieter

From: OAuth <oauth-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Rifaat Shekh-Yusef
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2022 3:02 PM
To: oauth <oauth@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] WGLC for Step-up Authentication

Correction:

Please, review the document and provide your feedback on the mailing list by 
Oct 7th, 2022.

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 9:52 AM Rifaat Shekh-Yusef 
<rifaat.s.i...@gmail.com<mailto:rifaat.s.i...@gmail.com>> wrote:
All,

This is to start a WG Last Call for the Step-up Authentication document:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-step-up-authn-challenge-03.html<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ietf.org%2Farchive%2Fid%2Fdraft-ietf-oauth-step-up-authn-challenge-03.html&data=05%7C01%7Cpieter.kasselman%40microsoft.com%7C0078f809101147bc978308da9ca32020%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637994521713812011%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=18sfemyWqYb06PvUA9eTLaq0ccDY14%2F6ETo58JpE%2FJQ%3D&reserved=0>

Please, review the document and provide your feedback on the mailing list by 
Sep 30th, 2022.

Regards,
 Rifaat & Hannes
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