Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-08 HTTP syntax comments

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 09 August 2011 18:57 UTC

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On 8/9/11 6:06 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> 1.1.  Notational Conventions
> 
>    ...
> 
>    This document uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notation of
>    [I-D.ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging], which is based upon the Augmented
>    Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notation of [RFC5234].  Additionally, the
>    following rules are included from [RFC2617]: auth-param and realm;
>    from [RFC3986]: URI-Reference; and from
>    [I-D.ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging]: RWS and quoted-string.
> 
> auth-param and realm should come from I-D.ietf-httpbis-p7-auth
> (optimally from a version >= 16 which we should get out before the end
> of the month).

And also add I-D.ietf-httpbis-p7-auth to the normative references.

It appears that the authors are OK with normative references to the
httpbis document series, but just so we're all aware that might delay
publication of an RFC for the bearer token format spec...

Peter

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