Re: [OAUTH-WG] New Version Notification for draft-hunt-oauth-v2-user-a4c-05.txt

Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com> Thu, 24 July 2014 15:57 UTC

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From: Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 11:57:33 -0400
To: Nat Sakimura <sakimura@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] New Version Notification for draft-hunt-oauth-v2-user-a4c-05.txt
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Nat,

You don't have to convince me. 

You have to sell all the people not implementing OpenId who think OAuth is sufficient. 

I agree A4C is currently too long. I think Mike and John may be on to something even better. 

Phil

> On Jul 24, 2014, at 11:50, Nat Sakimura <sakimura@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 2014-07-24 10:30 GMT-04:00 Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com>:
>> I’m not at all saying that OpenID is bad. If you want an IDP, its fine.  But if all a client wants is authentication, they think why can’t I just use RFC6749?
> 
> If all what one wants is to build a simple client, there is a standing document called OpenID Connect Basic Client Implementer's Guide 1.0. 
> 
> It is a profile that deals only the 'code' flow. 
> Size-wise, it is 32 pages. The break down are as below approximately: 
> 
> Abstract, Intro, ToC - 2.5 pages
> Terminology - 1.5 pages
> Getting ID Token - 9 pages
> ID Token Validation - 1 page (Seems missing from a4c draft?)
> Userinfo Endpoint - 7 pages
> Serializations - 1 page (missing in a4c?)
> String Operations etc. - 1 pages (missing in a4c?)
> Considerations - 2 pages (very brief in a4c)
> References, Acknowledgement - 2 pages
> Document History etc. - 7 pages
> 
> The a4c draft is 14 pages long. It will be longer than this in the end as it is missing bunch of things. 
> The comparable portion of the Basic Client Profile is 14 pages or so. 
> 
> Just one data point. 
> 
> -- 
> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> Chairman, OpenID Foundation
> http://nat.sakimura.org/
> @_nat_en