I agree with Brian's comments. It's clear to me that SD-JWT has benefited a
lot from the expertise of the OAuth WG.

OS




On Fri, Sep 15, 2023, 4:12 PM Brian Campbell <bcampbell=
40pingidentity....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi Roman,
>
> I'm going to dodge some of the bigger picture questions but wanted to give
> a bit of historical context/justification for the
> draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt work in the OAuth WG.
>
> JWT <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7519/> itself was a product of
> OAuth WG yet was intentionally developed as a general-purpose token format
> with no direct dependency or relation to RFC6749
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749>. JWT certainly had useful
> applications in OAuth/RFC6749 but it wasn't limited to such. JWT has seen
> widespread usage in a variety of applications and other standards, which is
> arguably a testament to the intent and nature of that development.
>
> SD-JWT
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt/>
> is basically just a selective disclosure mechanism for JWT. It builds on
> and leverages the established and familiar constructs of JWT. It is
> similarly intended to be a general-purpose specification. Given that broad
> intent and SD-JWT's relationship to JWT, with JWT's heritage of being
> developed in the OAuth WG, it seemed only natural and appropriate that
> SD-JWT follow suit and find its "home" for development in the OAuth WG too.
> SD-JWT has been an active work item of the WG for about a year and has
> matured nicely in that environment. I'm (maybe naively) hoping that the
> work is closer to the end of its time in WG than it is to the beginning.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 1:08 PM Roman Danyliw <r...@cert.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>> We've observed growing energy around JWT, selective disclosure and VC
>> related topics in the WG in recent meetings.  We spent almost all of the
>> third OAuth meeting at IETF 117 on related topics.  The initial SD-JWT
>> (draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt) has been followed up with
>> SD-JWT-VC (draft-ietf-oauth-sd-jwt-vc).  There is also work like
>> draft-looker-oauth-jwt-cwt-status-list being proposed.
>>
>> As promised at IETF 117, we would like to start a conversation about the
>> direction the WG would like to take at a strategic level rather than
>> continuing to deal this topic in one document increments of additional
>> scope.
>>
>> ** What's the body of work around SD/JWT/VC that should be done and how
>> much work will that be?  What needs to be done first?  What unknown about
>> the direction and needed tasks?
>>
>> ** For whatever that work might be, how should the OAuth charter evolve
>> to support the work?
>>
>> ** Is there work to be done around bridging the architectural narrative
>> used in the core OAuth framework/RFC6749 (AS, RS, RO) and three part model
>> (issuer, holder, verifier) used in
>> draft-ietf-oauth-selective-disclosure-jwt?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roman, Hannes, and Rifaat
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