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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by Someone on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:14AM (#31711962)
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7519 disagrees:

Abstract

JSON Web Token (JWT) is a compact, URL-safe means of representing claims to be transferred between two parties. The claims in a JWT are encoded as a JSON object that is used as the payload of a JSON Web Signature (JWS) structure or as the plaintext of a JSON Web Encryption (JWE) structure, enabling the claims to be digitally signed or integrity protected with a Message Authentication Code (MAC) and/or encrypted.

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Re:US moves closer to recalling Tesla’s self-driving software by tsimionescu on Sunday June 12, 2022 @06:40AM (#31713482)
Even the quoted fragment is a bit debatable - while the standard does commonly use "JWT" to mean a particular token, the very first sentence is only grammatical if we take JWT to be the name of the standard/format. Otherwise, it's missing an article - it should have been "*A* JSON Web Token (JWT) is [...]" if it were consistently used to refer to individual tokens, not the collective format.
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