Re: [OAUTH-WG] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-oauth-resource-indicators-05: (with COMMENT)

[Brian Campbell <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Barry, I kinda like it. Although I'm a bit hesitant to make a change
like that at this stage. I guess I'd be looking for a little more buy-in
from folks first. Though it's not actually a functional breaking change. So
maybe okay to just go with.

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 2:54 PM Barry Leiba <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > Yeah, with query parameters lacking the hierarchical semantics that the
> path component has, it is much less clear. In fact, an earlier revision of
> the draft forbid the query part as I was trying to avoid the ambiguity that
> it brings. But there were enough folks with some use case for it that it
> made its way back in. While I am sympathetic to the point you're making
> here, I'd prefer to not codify the practice any further by way of example
> in the document.
>
> Is it perhaps reasonable to discourage the use of a query component
> while still allowing it?  Maybe a "SHOULD NOT", such as this?:
>
> OLD
>       Its value MUST be an absolute URI, as specified by
>       Section 4.3 of [RFC3986], which MAY include a query component but
>       MUST NOT include a fragment component.
> NEW
>       Its value MUST be an absolute URI, as specified by
>       Section 4.3 of [RFC3986].  The URI MUST NOT include
>       a fragment component.  It SHOULD NOT include a query
>       component, but it is recognized that there are cases that
>       make a query component useful.
> END
>
> What do you think?
>
> Barry
>

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