Building on John Panzer's proposal, I would like to ask if people have strong 
objections to the following:

- Add the 1.0a RFC language for HMAC-SHA-1 signatures to the core specification 
in -11
- Discuss the signature language on the list and improve both prose and 
signature base string construction
- Apply improvements to -12

Keeping the 1.0a signature in the core specification makes sense and builds on 
existing experience and deployment. If we can reach quick consensus on some 
improvements, great. If not, we satisfy the need of many here to offer a simple 
alternative to bearer tokens, without having to reach consensus on a new 
signature algorithm suitable for core inclusion.

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I have seen nothing to suggest that this working group is going to reach 
consensus on a single signature algorithm worthy of core inclusion. I agree 
with John that at least the 1.0a algorithm is well understood and already 
deployed. I can live with it used without changes, which will also allow 
reusing existing code with 2.0. I think we can improve it by making small 
changes, but have better things to do with my time than spend the next few 
months arguing over it.

By including the 1.0a text in -11, we will have a feature complete 
specification that I hope many people here can live with if it doesn't change 
(which looks more likely).

My question is, who here has strong objections to this, and cannot live with 
the core specification including the 1.0a HMAC-SHA1 algorithm?

EHL
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