The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Use Cases and Requirements for JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)' (draft-ietf-jose-use-cases-06.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Sean Turner and Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jose-use-cases/ Technical Summary This document defines a set of use cases and requirements for a secure object format encoded using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), drawn from a variety of application security mechanisms currently in development. Working Group Summary The document represents the consuses of the working group. The document was not controversial during the working group discussions. Document Quality The document has not had a large amount of review outside of the JOSE working group. As such it is possible that the group has missed or mis-represented the set of use cases that the JOSE working group needs to address when generating the specifications in the group. The OAUTH working group views are well presented, but it does not have sufficient apps area review. Personnel Document Shepherd is Jim Schaad Area Director is Sean Turner
