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Requirements for Managment APIs

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Description

As disccussed in today's security call with @mmccool. We need to identify a set of requirements for APIs that handles runtime configuration and security initialization (i.e., fill secrets). Prescribing those requirements can help to make assumptions in the description of the Scripting API. For example in the newly added ExposedThingInit algorithm we could refer to the presence of a set of securityDefinitions configured with such API.

I think this addition could help also implementers to know how to handle out-of-band security data and protocol binding configurations.

Related work (kindof): https://github.com/w3c/wot-scripting-api/tree/master/applications/script-manager

Related:
https://github.com/w3c/wot-scripting-api/pull/289#issuecomment-775182073

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Research direction

Start by reading the linked applications/script-manager work and the discussion in pull request 289. Then inspect the newly added ExposedThingInit algorithm and its securityDefinitions reference. Done means a reviewed, explicit set of requirements for management APIs covering runtime configuration, security initialization, out-of-band security data, and protocol binding configurations.

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Assessment

Domain
api, backend-api-design, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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