I would like people to raise their hand and explain how this will break actual 
1.0 deployments. 

EHL



On Jul 15, 2010, at 1:38, Brian Eaton <bea...@google.com> wrote:

> Draft 10 switched from "Token" scheme in the authorization header to
> "OAuth".  I'd rather we didn't reuse OAuth.  'OAuth2' would be great.
> "Token" is ugly as sin, but is better than "OAuth".
> 
> Spec section: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-10#page-30
> 
> The problem with reusing "OAuth" is that there are existing
> implementations in the wild that have special behavior implemented for
> OAuth authorization headers.  Since OAuth2 headers don't have the same
> semantics, we're going to break those implementations.  We shouldn't
> reuse "OAuth" for the same reasons we shouldn't reuse "Negotiate",
> "NTLM", "Digest", or "Basic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
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