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Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-openid-06.txt

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Fri, 04 November 2011 11:16 UTC

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Cc: General Area Review Team <gen-art@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-openid.all@tools.ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-kitten-sasl-openid-06.txt
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Eliot Lear wrote:

>Hi Brian,
>
>Apologies for the belated review.  Please see comments below.
>
>On 7/22/64 8:33 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>  
>
>>Please see attached review.
>>    
>>
 [...]

>>"some sort of..."   "any number of ways" This is very loose language
>>for a standards-track draft. I don't know what to suggest but it
>>just seems too vague as it is. If all you can actually specify is
>>a transport mechanism, then shouldn't the specification avoid hand-waving
>>on other matters?
>>    
>>
>
>The issue is that OpenID was designed where you could serialize with
>cookies.  You can't do that with a non-browser app in the middle. 
>Still, the matter is internal to the RP.  There is no need for the
>information to be interpreted by other parties, and as such we ought not
>specify its form.  If you would like I can add some text around this
>since it seems to be a point of confusion.
>  
>
IMHO, I think some text in this area would be helpful.

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