Agreed.

We need to clarify that the value of the audience claim can be multi valued as 
well. 

John B.

On 2012-12-26, at 10:43 PM, Mike Jones <michael.jo...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-assertions-08#section-5.1 
> currently says:
>  
>    Audience  A URI that identifies the party intended to process the
>       assertion.  The audience SHOULD be the URL of the Token Endpoint
>       as defined in Section 3.2 of OAuth 2.0 [RFC6749].
>  
> I think that “URI” should be changed to “value”, since audience values in 
> general need not be URIs.  In particular, in some contexts OAuth client_id 
> values are used as audience values, and they need not be URIs.  Also, SAML 
> allows multiple audiences (and indeed, the OAuth SAML profile is written in 
> terms of “an audience value” – not “the audience value”), and so the generic 
> Assertions spec should do likewise.
>  
> Thus, I would propose changing the text above to the following:
>  
>    Audience  A value that identifies the parties intended to process the
>       assertion.  An audience value SHOULD be the URL of the Token Endpoint
>       as defined in Section 3.2 of OAuth 2.0 [RFC6749].
>  
>                                                             -- Mike
>  
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