Re: [OAUTH-WG] Oauth Server to Server

On 24/09/13 13:08, Antonio Sanso wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> apologis to be back to this argument :).
>
> Let me try to better explain one use case that IMHO would be really good to have in the OAuth specification family :)
>
> At the moment the only "OAuth standard" way I know to do OAuth server to server is to use [0] namely Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant.
>
> Let me tell I am not a big fun of this particular flow :) (but this is another story).
>
> An arguable better way to solve this scenario is to user (and why not to standardise :S?) the method used by Google (or a variant of it) see [1].

2-way TLS and Resource Owner Password Credentials should be secure 
enough, right ?

Cheers, Sergey
>
> Couple of more things:
>
> - I do not know if Google would be interested to put some effort to standardise it (is anybody from Google lurking :) e.g.Tim Bray :D )
> - I am not too familiar with IETF process. Would the OAuth WG take in consideration such proposal draft??
>
> Thanks and regards
>
> Antonio
>
> [0] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.3
> [1] https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ServiceAccount
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