RFC 9493 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2023

Subject Identifiers for Security Event Tokens

Overview

RFC 9493, “Subject Identifiers for Security Event Tokens”, is a Proposed Standard document published in December 2023 by A. Backman, M. Scurtescu, P. Jain. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

Security events communicated within Security Event Tokens may support a variety of identifiers to identify subjects related to the event. This specification formalizes the notion of Subject Identifiers as structured information that describes a subject and named formats that define the syntax and semantics for encoding Subject Identifiers as JSON objects. It also establishes a registry for defining and allocating names for such formats as well as the JSON Web Token (JWT) "sub_id" Claim.

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What “Proposed Standard” means

An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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