Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-12: ABNF nits

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Fri, 28 October 2011 08:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-12: ABNF nits
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On 2011-10-28 01:30, Manger, James H wrote:
> ...
> Perhaps a better approach is to: defined<scope>,<error>,<error-desc>, and<error-uri>  values as<quoted-string>; add text saying senders MUST NOT use quoted-string's escape mechanism (so " and \ cannot appear in the values), though receivers MAY use a standard quoted-string parser; say the<error-uri>  value must match<URI-reference>; say the<scope>  value is a list of space-delimited, case sensitive strings.
> ...

This goes into the right direction.

I would also allow both token and quoted-string, because it seems to be 
totally pointless to forbid it.

(I'll send a longer summary about open issues soonish))

Best regards, Julian