Re: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Consensus on Document Split

"Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com> Thu, 14 October 2010 23:18 UTC

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From: "Manger, James H" <James.H.Manger@team.telstra.com>
To: Blaine Cook <romeda@gmail.com>, "oauth@ietf.org" <oauth@ietf.org>
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Blaine,

I am in favour of splitting the specification, but the right dividing line is not the whole of section 5 "Accessing a Protected Resource".

The core OAuth spec needs to keep a section defining a WWW-Authenticate response header with which to tell a client that the OAuth "get a token" flows can be used to get access to a resource. This is a bit like section 5.2 "The WWW-Authenticate Response Header Field".

Error codes [section 5.2] like "expired_token" or "insufficient_scope" only make sense in a spec that defines the flows to renew a token or change its scope. I assume that will be the core OAuth spec, not the bearer token spec. For comparison, the HTTP BASIC spec does not tell you how to change your password or register for a password.


My suggestion for the editorial split:
* Remove 5, 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, and 5.1.3.
* Keep 5.2, and 5.2.1.


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James Manger

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Consensus on Document Split

Over the past few weeks, the working group debated the issues around
the introduction of signatures and the structure of the specification.
The working group seems to endorse the proposal to split the current
specification into two parts: one including section 5 (bearer token)
and the other including the rest (how to obtain a token), with an
additional specification covering signature use cases.

This serves as a call for consensus on the proposed editorial work.
Before we proceed with the changes, the chairs would like to ask if
anyone has any concerns or objections against this proposal.

In addition, the chairs are seeking a volunteer to take over the
bearer token specification (section 5) as editor.

Please submit your comments by Wednesday, October 20th.

- The OAuth Working Group Chairs
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