> > In most instances outside of the Big Web Companies, OAuth is going to be
> > the new kid being grafted onto an existing framework or application. As
> > such, it really needs to play nice.
> 
> Just a side note, with extensions also being simple names added to the
> protocol chances of a collision with an existing framework are much
> higher. Using MediaWiki as an example, if an extension proposes to use
> 'title' as a parameter name it will be approved if it does not collied
> with other OAuth 2 parameter names (core or extensions), but
> frameworks will not be checked (that is impossible).

Right, and it's exactly for reasons like this that I had argued for
namespacing all of the OAuth parameters. But was shot down by the WG.

 -- Justin

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