I'm all for that.

I suppose you have already thought of a suitable name? :)

Vladimir

On 14/04/2020 23:08, Brian Campbell wrote:
> Using PAR can facilitate improved security by giving clients a
> (relatively) simple means for sending a confidential, integrity
> protected, and (for confidential clients anyway) authenticated
> authorization request.
>
> It seems like some of that improved security could be undermined by a
> malicious actor somehow getting a user to navigate to a URL of a
> regular old parameterized authorization request. One variation of the
> Mix-Up Attack does this
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-15#section-4.4.1
> for example and email, social media, online forums, etc., are other
> ways a user might be tricked into following a maliciously crafted link. 
>
> Following from that it seems logical that an authorization server
> might want to restrict some clients from sending a regular
> parameterized authorization request and instead require use of the PAR
> endpoint to initiate an authorization request. Something like this
> could, of course, be implemented as custom policy or configuration in
> any AS. But I'm thinking it might be common enough to warrant adding a
> client metadata parameter to the PAR draft specifically for it. The
> metadata (and registered extensions) defined by Dynamic Client
> Registration [RFC7591] has come to imply a general data model and
> expected associated behaviors for clients that is useful for
> authorization server implementations, even when the Dynamic Client
> Registration Protocol isn't directly in play. This particular
> situation seems like a good potential candidate for a new such client
> metadata parameter that would indicate that the given client can only
> use a request_uri value obtained from the PAR endpoint to initiate an
> authorization request. And that a regular old fashioned authorization
> request from the given client would result in an error.
>
> Do the folks of this fine WG think something like this would be a
> worthwhile addition to the PAR draft?
>
>
>
>
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