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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Separate names for authentication and authorization

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 24 November 2009 15:56 UTC

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On 11/23/09 10:45 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> How do people feel about using OAuth as the name for the different
> flows to obtain a token, including the new flows defined in WRAP, and
> calling the authentication part simply the Token Authentication
> scheme, in line with Basic and Digest?

+1

> I think this would be much more in-line with people's expectations of
> the OAuth "brand".

Agreed.

/psa

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