The IESG has approved the following document: - 'JSON Web Signature (JWS)' (draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-41.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Kathleen Moriarty and Stephen Farrell. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature/ Technical Summary This document, JSON Web Signature (JWS), represents content secured with digital signatures or Message Authentication Codes (MACs) using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) based data structures. Two serializations for JWS objects are defined, a compact, URL-safe representation and a JSON serialization. Working Group Summary The document has clear working group consensus for publication, and has been reviewed by several WG participants since its initial adoption as a working group item. Document Quality This document has been reviewed and revised many times. There are multiple implementations of this document. Some of these are listed at: https://openid.net/developers/libraries/ (see the JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA Implementations section). There was much discussion on this draft in last call and while most of the discussions were resolved, there is a discussion continuing for the duplicate member name text. The current text aligns with WG consensus prior to IETF last call and was split between those commenting (implementation vs. possibly 'doing the right thing'). http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/secdir/current/msg05105.html Personnel Karen O'Donoghue is acting as the Document Shepherd. Kathleen Moriarty is the Responsible Area Director. IANA Note 'The registries use the 5226 'Specification Required' registration policy.' RFC Editor Note: This draft is part of a set of drafts that cross 2 working groups. I am working through the reviews (shepherd just confirmed them for the OAuth ones) and would like them processed as a set. The JOSE drafts will hopefully be ready shortly as well. The set includes (in order): 1 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature 2 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption 3 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key 4 draft-ietf-jose-json-web-algorithms 5 draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token 6 draft-ietf-jose-cookbook 7 draft-ietf-oauth-assertions 8 draft-ietf-oauth-saml2-bearer 9 draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-bearer