Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-16 Thread Bill Burke
Yeah, I know its risky, but that's the requirement. Was just wondering if there was any protocol work being done around it, so that we could avoid doing a lot of the legwork to make it safe/effective. Currently for us, we need to do this between two separate IDPs, which is where the protocol

Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-16 Thread Justin Richer
Another question is whether or not you can user rights delegation (ie vanilla OAuth) or if you really do need impersonation. You may be able to get the desired results with less complexity that way. -- Justin / Sent from my phone / Original message From: Bill Burke Date:0

Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-16 Thread Bill Mills
I don't think there is protocol work required.  IMO you can best support this with limited cookies or tokens that are not otherwise valid and the server then needs to support with the right behavior.  Might be a BCP doc I suppose, but I don't know if it's worth the effort. On Monday, Febr

Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-16 Thread Bill Mills
Straight impersonation with no limitations isn't a good solution in the long run. On Monday, February 16, 2015 1:13 PM, William Denniss wrote: I led a discussion on a related topic at a recent IIW (specifically exploring the "account sharing" use case), the notes are here:  http://

Re: [OAUTH-WG] user impersonation protocol?

2015-02-16 Thread Mike Jones
The OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange specification is designed for use cases such as yours. Quoting from the abstract: This specification defines how to request and obtain Security Tokens from OAuth Authorization Servers, including enablin

Re: [OAUTH-WG] AD review of Draft-ietf-dyn-reg

2015-02-16 Thread Mike Jones
A few responses and comments are inline below... > From: OAuth [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Phil Hunt > Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 11:47 AM > To: Justin Richer > Cc: oauth@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] AD review of Draft-ietf-dyn-reg > > > Phil > > @independentid > www.

Re: [OAUTH-WG] AD review of Draft-ietf-dyn-reg

2015-02-16 Thread Justin Richer
To Mike's last question below: I'd like Phil (and others if desired) to propose a clarified version of the "deployment organization", "software api publisher", and "client developer" if possible. With some text for that in hand I can tackle the rest given the feedback below. -- Justin On 2/1