<div dir="ltr"><div>In two places in the Authentication Request Validation section of CIBA, there is text that says the OpenID Provider MUST return error response per Section 3.1.2.6 of [OpenID.Core]. However, <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html#AuthError">Section 3.1.2.6 of OpenID.Core</a> defines returning errors to the client by redirecting the browser to the client's redirect_uri. When read literally (and that happens with specs!) the MUST there is rather
<span></span>nonsensical because the CIBA Authentication Request is a direct HTTP POST from the client to the OP/AS. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Those two occurrences should probably be updated to point to the Authentication Error Response section in CIBA (<a href="https://xml2rfc.tools.ietf.org/cgi-bin/xml2rfc.cgi?Submit=Submit&format=ascii&mode=html&type=ascii&url=https://bitbucket.org/openid/mobile/raw/585e168fcc5d89bbb0e0908ecf2d7498982aac9f/draft-mobile-client-initiated-backchannel-authentication.xml#auth_error_response">§11</a> in bitbucket / <a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-modrna-client-initiated-backchannel-authentication-1_0.html#auth_error_response">§6.5</a> in the published version) that better defines errors from the Backchannel Authentication Endpoint. I rather suspect that's the intent of the draft and the problematic MUSTs are just an oversight. <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></div>
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