[OIDFSC] OpenID Artifact Binding Working Group Proposal

[Nat Sakimura]

*OpenID Artifact Binding Working Group*
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*Charter Proposal*

In accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures this
note proposes the formation of a new working group chartered to produce an
OpenID specification. As per Section 4.1 of the Policies, the proposed
charter is below.
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*I. Name*

Artifact Binding Working Group (AB)
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*II. Statement of Purpose*

Produce a binding of OpenID requests and response (assertion) that uses
direct communication for main payload and indirect communication for a small
reference data called Artifact to cope with long URL limits experienced by
man
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*III. Scope*

Create the Artifact Binding to support the identified needs. Currently
identified:

   - Cope with long url problem, especially for mobile browsers.
   - Cope with the security problems of non-encrypted payload to go through
   the user agents which may act as a man-in-the-middle.

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*IV. Specifications*

OpenID Artifact Binding 1.0
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*V. Anticipated audience*

All those interested in using OpenID in mobile and other constrained browser
and server elements.
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*VI. Language of business*

English.
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*VII. Method of work*

Mailing list discussion. Posting of intermediate drafts in the OpenID Wiki.
Virtual conferencing on an ad-hoc basis.
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*VIII. Basis for completion of the activity*

The Artifact Binding 1.0 spec made final.
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*Background Information*
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*I. Related Work*

SAML Artifact Binding

OAuth

Wrap

Contract Exchange
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*II. Initial Membership*

   - Breno de Medeiros, breno at google.com. Google, Inc.
   - Hideki Nara, hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp, Tact Communications
   - Nat Sakimura, n-sakimura at nri.co.jp, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.
    (editor)
   - John Bradley, ve7jtb at ve7jtb.com
   - Allen Tom, atom at yahoo-inc.com, Yahoo!
   - Will Norris, will at willnorris.com

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*III. Expected contribution*



Draft: OpenID Artifact Binding 1.0 - Draft 01,
http://www.sakimura.org/specs/ab/1.0/

-- 
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
http://www.sakimura.org/en/
http://twitter.com/_nat_en
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