First Draft of JSON Web Token (JWT)

Phil Shafer, Nat Sakimura, and John Bradley submitted the first official Internet-Draft for 'JSON Web Token (JWT)' to the IETF, laying the foundational concepts.

Significance

This marked the formal inception of JWT as a proposed standard, initiating the IETF's rigorous process of review, discussion, and refinement, moving it from a conceptual idea to a tangible specification.