Who mints the first Biscuit? PingFederate, token exchange and a hybrid model

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Repo: darkedges/pf12.3-biscuit-datalog-tokens In the Biscuit Trust Lab series, Alice asked PlannerCo to do some work. PlannerCo split it between ResearchCo and ComputeCo, ResearchCo passed part of it to SearchCo, and every hop narrowed the token it was handed. Nobody called home to ask permission, and nobody could widen what they'd been given. There was one thing that series never answered: where did Alice's first token come from? In the lab, the platform minted it.

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