If the access token isn't valid, then the intent is that the server return whatever is a valid response from OAuth, which as I recall is practically any 400 class error. This behavior for DynReg is outlined in section 5.2 of draft -09.

In your case, since you're actually failing on the bad token, you're fine with returning a 401. In other words, by my intent of the text and my understanding of your implementation, you're actually compliant. The problem is that the text made you think otherwise. :)

Can you suggest how to make this clearer for developers in the text?

 -- Justin


On 03/29/2013 11:57 PM, nov matake wrote:
oops sorry, not draft07, but draft06.

On 2013/03/30, at 12:55, nov matake <mat...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Justin,

I read the latest draft and found endpoints described in the spec returns 403 in "no 
such clients" case.
I also read the draft07's editor note below, so I can understand the situation.

[[ Editor's note: If the client doesn't exist,
then the Refresh Access Token shouldn't be valid, making this kind of
error a 403 at the auth layer instead.  How best to call this
inconsistency out? ]]

However, in my current implementation, the server returns 401 if an access 
token is given but there are no valid access token in its DB.
In my case, validation for the given access token is done in middleware layer, 
so I don't want to change the error code per endpoint.
In such case, client registration/read/update/delete endpoints can return 401 
error?

Thanks

--
nov

On 2013/03/30, at 5:53, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote:

New dynamic registration draft is published. Biggest changes here are the 
internationalization/localization capabilities that are now applicable to 
human-readable client metadata fields.

-- Justin

On 03/29/2013 04:38 PM, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
This draft is a work item of the Web Authorization Protocol Working Group of 
the IETF.

        Title           : OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
        Author(s)       : Justin Richer
                          John Bradley
                          Michael B. Jones
                          Maciej Machulak
        Filename        : draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-09.txt
        Pages           : 23
        Date            : 2013-03-29

Abstract:
   This specification defines an endpoint and protocol for dynamic
   registration of OAuth 2.0 Clients at an Authorization Server and
   methods for the dynamically registered client to manage its
   registration.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg

There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-09

A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-09


Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/

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