expires_at requires very good time synchronization for all machines involved.

expires_in, while not very exact, is more resilient.

Marius



On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Jitesh Bhate <jbh...@exacttarget.com> wrote:
> I have same question, Thanks Paul for Raising this
>
> Regards
> Jitesh
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of 
> Paul Walker
> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:14 PM
> To: OAuth WG
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] expires_at vs expires_in
>
> Has there been discussion of using expires_at as an exact epoch time in 
> seconds as opposed to expires_in which is, at best, an approximation "from 
> the time the response was generated by the authorization server?"  I 
> apologize if this has been discussed previously.
>
> ~pj
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