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Usage of "resource" request parameter incompatible with oauth-identity-chaining #110

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oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant is expected to be a profile of identity chaining:

Identity Chaining intentionally leaves many details unspecified in order to support multiple use cases. This specification profiles it [Identity Chaining] […]

However, their definition of the resource parameter in the token Exchange Request is incompatible:

  • For identity chaining, this identifies the authorization server for trust domain B (i.e. the resource authorization server)
  • For identity assertion authz grant, this identified the resource server

In identity chaining, we have:

Token Exchange Request

[…]

resource, URI of authorization server for trust domain B

In oauth-identity-assertion-authz-grant:

The Client makes a Token Exchange [RFC8693] request to the IdP Authorization Server's Token Endpoint with the following parameters:

[…]

resource: OPTIONAL - The Resource Identifier of the Resource Server as defined in Section 2 of [RFC8707].


I would claim oauth-identity-chaining is more consistent with the definition of resource because as per RFC 8693, they are supposed to have the same semantic meaning.

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