[OAUTH-WG] Issue: 3.5.3 Polling?

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Mon, 19 April 2010 13:09 UTC

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From: Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com>
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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Issue: 3.5.3 Polling?
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  For this section I would like to understand the logic of using polling 
rather than a client blocking.  I could imagine several legitimate 
reasons, but the text isn't there, and I have a very vivid (and 
sometimes wrong) imagination.

Eliot