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From: "William Mills" <wmills@yahoo-inc.com>
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Token makes sense in the context of provisioning a more general token
auth header which we overload on.  That said I'm glad we're getting
simpler.  =20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org]=20
> On Behalf Of Brian Eaton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:39 PM
> To: oauth@ietf.org
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth vs OAuth2 in Authorization header
>=20
> Draft 10 switched from "Token" scheme in the authorization=20
> header to "OAuth".  I'd rather we didn't reuse OAuth. =20
> 'OAuth2' would be great.
> "Token" is ugly as sin, but is better than "OAuth".
>=20
> Spec section:=20
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-10#page-30
>=20
> The problem with reusing "OAuth" is that there are existing=20
> implementations in the wild that have special behavior=20
> implemented for OAuth authorization headers.  Since OAuth2=20
> headers don't have the same semantics, we're going to break=20
> those implementations.  We shouldn't reuse "OAuth" for the=20
> same reasons we shouldn't reuse "Negotiate", "NTLM",=20
> "Digest", or "Basic.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Brian
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