Re: [apps-discuss] Reserved URI query parameter in draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 04/13/2012 08:43 AM, Ned Freed wrote:
> I certainly don't object to doing that. In fact I don't object to dropping this
> nasty hack from the document, although perhaps documenting it as *not*
> standardized and explaining why it sucks would be even better.

So I've a possibly naive question:

Why is it harmful to standardise a parameter name for use in
query strings?

Note: I'm not asking if access_token is a good or bad name for
one of those, nor how exactly to standardise one well or badly,
nor who should do that, but it seems from the comments here that
some folks are against the idea of standardising anything after
the authority is a bad idea, and I don't get why exactly that
might be the case.

Thanks,
S.