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Spec revision following two decisions: Option B admin deny (2026-09-02) and the HTTP ingress ruling (2026-09-02). Revises `docs/nips/NIP-FI.md` only. Follows #7214 (merged spec v2). ## What changed ### Admin disconnect: session-only → deny-until-TTL The disconnect operation proceeds in two steps, in order: 1. Insert a memory-resident deny entry keyed by `(iss, target_pubkey)` with absolute expiry `until` — atomically combined with the `(iss, jti)` replay-identity reservation as one all-or-nothing mutation. If the deny set is at capacity (per-issuer bound), the relay rejects `503`; neither the jti nor the deny entry is recorded, and the caller may safely retry the same signed command. 2. Close all live WebSocket connections for the target pubkey, synchronously. The single atomic admission mutation (jti reservation + deny-entry insertion) lives inside `VerifyCommandJwt` step 7, after all pure authorization checks. The endpoint only closes sessions on success. This ordering ensures a capacity failure leaves no state behind and makes the retry-safe 503 contract implementable. The deny set is RAM-cache only — no durable storage, no schema changes. The same operational posture as the JWKS snapshot. A relay restart MAY forget active entries; the issuer SHOULD re-push still-active deny entries on observed restart (same publish/cache pattern as JWKS). If the issuer stops issuing assertions and re-push completes before any expired-entry reconnection attempt, residual exposure after restart is bounded by `max(0, min(exp, iat + maximum_assertion_age) - now)`. If the issuer continues issuing or re-push does not complete in time, that formula does not apply and access may continue beyond it. **`until` claim:** Required on the disconnect command JWT. Because an assertion accepted at the future-skew boundary (`iat <= now + skew`) remains valid until `iat + maximum_assertion_age`, the latest possible authority deadline is `now + skew + maximum_assertion_age`. The relay enforces `until <= now + skew + maximum_assertion_age`. A value above this ceiling rejects `400`; a past `until` still closes live sessions — absent an active same-key entry it creates no future denial, while an active entry remains unchanged under the merge rule. **Capacity and eviction (per-issuer):** The relay MUST bound the deny set size **per issuer**. Capacity exhaustion under one issuer MUST NOT cause rejection of another issuer's commands; the `503` capacity check is evaluated against the command's own issuer bound. Implementations MUST evict only expired entries; when an issuer's partition is at capacity and all entries are still active, the relay MUST reject the new command `503` without removing any existing entry. There is no LRU eviction of active denies. **Issuer-global deny:** The deny entry applies to admission across all communities served by the relay under that issuer. Identity-level revocation is intentionally not community-partial. **Cross-replica propagation:** In a deployment with multiple relay processes, the deployment MUST propagate both the session-close and the deny entry to every process serving admissions for the issuer's communities. The mechanism is deployment-defined (e.g. the existing inter-process message bus, same posture as JWKS convergence). Propagation is asynchronous with no protocol-level completion bound. The issuer re-push duty is the recovery path for lost propagation, exactly as for relay restart. **Response shape:** A successful disconnect responds `{"disconnected": true}` regardless of how many sessions were closed. No session count is returned; a count would aggregate activity across communities and constitute an information leak. **Admission procedure:** Step 5 registers the session's proven `k` before the deny-set check (new step 6) — ensuring any connection that straddles a concurrent disconnect is caught by one side or the other. `FI-TRACE-DENY-SET` oracle covers the per-issuer capacity rule and the straddling termination requirement. ### HTTP ingress enforcement Without explicit enforcement, a protected HTTP surface (bridge, invites, media, git) with NIP-98-only authorization allows a principal holding an active key to mint fresh NIP-98 events indefinitely — NIP-98 proves key possession only, not identity. Without assertion verification there is no expiry bound; the key remains valid for as long as it is accepted. **Pairing rule:** in enforce mode, a protected HTTP request MUST carry both: ``` Authorization: Nostr <base64-NIP-98-event> Nostr-Federated-Identity: Bearer <compact-JWS> ``` The NIP-98 pubkey MUST equal the assertion `nostr_pubkey` claim. Missing, mismatched, or invalid evidence of either kind denies, fail closed. **Verification:** reuses `VerifyAssertion` unchanged — offline, same JWKS, same claim requirements, same denial classes. **Per-request:** HTTP is sessionless; every request re-verifies. No session lifetime, no cached admission. The cumulative residual bound applies per request. **Deny-set applicability:** the deny-until-TTL entry introduced above is consulted per HTTP request identically to WebSocket admission. **Protected surface:** deployment-configured set of routes, fail-closed default (unclassifiable routes treated as protected). No normative route names in the spec. `FI-TRACE-HTTP-INGRESS` oracle added. Security considerations updated with HTTP ingress bypass analysis. NIP-98 source reference added. ### Other changes - `authorization_denied` rejection table row updated to "active deny-set entry for pubkey". - Discovery: `maximum_residual_upstream_revocation_seconds` remains `null` — the deny-until-TTL model is best-effort RAM state and provides no unconditional finite revocation bound. - Rejection and privacy: explicit sentence for HTTP denial path. - Client-attached transport: opening sentence generalized to cover both WebSocket and HTTP. ## Scope Single file: `docs/nips/NIP-FI.md`. No code changes. References #7214. Channel: buzz-enterprise-identity-spec-v2 (#a6fe0b1c-987a-43c5-a974-71ee36678d78). --------- Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz> Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>