+1 for something different but not "client password" as sounds like it would preclude other methods of client authentication
On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Brian Eaton <bea...@google.com> wrote: > +1. > > How about calling it "client password", or something along those > lines...? That's what Dick called it for WRAP. > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hardt-oauth-01#page-13 > > Cheers, > Brian > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Marius Scurtescu <mscurte...@google.com> > wrote: >> I agree that grant_type=none is confusing. "client" or "direct" sound better. >> >> Marius >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote: >>> The choice of the value "none" for the grant_type parameter in the >>> client-credentials case is confusing. I understand the philosophy behind >>> this choice, but I think that calling it "none" here gives the wrong >>> impression. It almost sounds like it's a deny-request on first glance, >>> or even a revoke request of some type. Furthermore, I'd say that there >>> really is an access grant being made here, but it's implicit, and given >>> to the client directly and not to an end user. >>> >>> I propose we change this key to "client", "implicit", "direct", or >>> something other than "none" to avoid this kind of confusion. Along with >>> this, I would also like the paragraph in 4.1 describing the usage of >>> this grant type to be pulled into its own (admittedly short) subsection. >>> In this way, someone looking to implement this style of auth will have >>> somewhere concrete to look, bringing this method on par with others in >>> section 4.1. >>> >>> -- Justin >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OAuth mailing list >>> OAuth@ietf.org >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> OAuth mailing list >> OAuth@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth >> > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth > _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
