I don't really like hats, but regardless, I'm wearing my AD hat....

I beg to differ.

Assuming you mean this item (the first in Roman's discuss):
 ** For the OAUTH WG Chairs and responsible AD: this document appears to be
describing new mechanisms for CWT and ISO mdoc; and a new sub-registry for
CWT.
  I could use help understanding how this fits into the defined scope in
OAUTH
WG charter given that the status-list work isn’t explicitly named and CWT
and
mdoc aren’t directly tied to “increasing interoperability of OAuth
deployments
and to improve security [in OAuth deployments].”

Both spice and ace were contacted on their mailing lists asking for their
concurrence (i.e. putting this together into one specification vice
splintering the information into 2 specifications).  Those are the mailing
list links in my message.

As for the mdoc in ISO, that was modified to be merely an example, i.e.
non-normative.

Of course, I'm assuming that you brought all this up while the draft was in
the working group, right?  Because after it is passed to me, seems....
um... late....

What am I missing?

Deb

p.s.  Note:  you should really want an oauth recharter to ensure that the
SD-JWT VC draft is squarely in charter, no?


On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 12:23 PM Brian Campbell <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Significant parts of this draft fall well outside the defined scope of the
> OAUTH WG charter and, while the responsible AD and the OAUTH chairs plan to
> start work on a recharter, those parts of the draft will still not be in
> the scope of that prospective new charter.
>
> It seems the impetus behind the first DISCUSS point raised have not been
> addressed.
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 8:05 AM Deb Cooley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> This message is to pop this to the top of your queue.  The authors have
>> addressed your comments as is reflected in the current draft version (and
>> messages to yourself on 7 and 15 Jan).  Both ace and spice [1] were queried
>> with positive feedback.
>>
>> The action we are seeking is to clear the discuss.
>>
>> In addition to this, the oauth chairs and I will work on a recharter, as
>> soon as they have recovered from IETF 125 travel.
>>
>> [0]
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ace/vmRRPwPRHXkAhP-MfpKgd0pH2Ns/
>> [1]
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/spice/SMgovRcQ3LicZG2YXlTlA_BYGj8/
>>
>> Deb
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2026 at 3:57 PM Brian Campbell <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A "normal" implementer (not seeped in IETF lore and knowledge) likely
>>> won't know or care about the differences in WG of origin or respective
>>> charter. But they will likely notice that the scope and content of the
>>> document, which presumably should have been guided and constrained by the
>>> charter, is incongruent with expectations and related work.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 4:52 AM Deb Cooley <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> inline w/ [DC]
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2026 at 6:11 PM Brian Campbell <bcampbell=
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2026 at 3:29 PM Roman Danyliw via Datatracker <
>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Roman Danyliw has entered the following ballot position ...
>>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-status-list/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> DISCUSS:
>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ** For the OAUTH WG Chairs and responsible AD: this document appears
>>>>>> to be
>>>>>> describing new mechanisms for CWT and ISO mdoc; and a new
>>>>>> sub-registry for CWT.
>>>>>>   I could use help understanding how this fits into the defined scope
>>>>>> in OAUTH
>>>>>> WG charter given that the status-list work isn’t explicitly named and
>>>>>> CWT and
>>>>>> mdoc aren’t directly tied to “increasing interoperability of OAuth
>>>>>> deployments
>>>>>> and to improve security [in OAuth deployments].”
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am but an individual OAuth Working Group participant, albeit one who
>>>>> has spent some time operating around - occasionally pushing at
>>>>> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth/6qjAsqLwyp5WoxqY3dVv8SJ5nVM/>
>>>>>  -
>>>>> the margins of the chartered scope. Before the document was adopted, and
>>>>> even before SPICE formed a working group, I argued for a narrower scope 
>>>>> for
>>>>> the draft (certainly without a CTW variant
>>>>> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth/Gekd-vzNy4rC3HsIl1FDi6nWuuI/>,
>>>>> and arguably without any signed representation at all
>>>>> <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/oauth/bO9FXfCvvIsxNz-0cnEnpDDh8mE/>).
>>>>> Those suggestions went unheeded, but I don’t think that “things just
>>>>> happened that way” meaningfully addresses your question.
>>>>>
>>>>> The inclusion of CBOR/COSE/CWT encodings, ostensibly to better support
>>>>> the likely technology stack in ISO mdoc implementations, which is more or
>>>>> less how it has been explained to me, does seem to fall well outside the
>>>>> chartered scope. More recently, I’ve heard it suggested that the work is
>>>>> already done and the content in the document, so it’s better to simply
>>>>> leave it. That argument does resonate to some extent. Still, I do wonder
>>>>> whether doing so would set an unfortunate precedent that straying well
>>>>> beyond the charter is tacitly endorsed.
>>>>>
>>>>> [DC] To be crystal clear, the plan is to take two actions:
>>>>   1.  Consult with both ace and spice to get agreement to put these
>>>> specifications all in one place (a one stop shop, as it were), vice
>>>> publishing them in multiple places based on the charters of the working
>>>> groups.  Multiple specifications will likely not be completely 'matchy
>>>> matchy' as I say, possibly with small changes, complicating
>>>> implementations.  As a note, I will point out that once the RFC is issued,
>>>> the normal implementer (not seeped in IETF lore and knowledge) won't know
>>>> the difference.
>>>>
>>>>   2.  Both the AD (me) and the oauth chairs will begin work on a
>>>> recharter of oauth, it was last rechartered in 2016, so it is dated in the
>>>> best case.  This recharter will not bring this particular draft into
>>>> charter (as CWT is clearly being worked in other working groups).  So,
>>>> while that recharter is past due, it is orthogonal to this particular
>>>> specification.
>>>>
>>>> My question is this:  Can the discuss be cleared with agreement from
>>>> the wgs in question (#1 above).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
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