Also it's possible that extensions will define an authentication scheme which is available through Oauth2 and also through other pathways. It might be you can obtain a MAC token through a flow other than OAuth.
> -----Original Message----- > From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf > Of William Mills > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:35 PM > To: Marius Scurtescu; Mike Jones > Cc: OAuth WG > Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Bear token scheme name > > As I remember there was serious objection by a few to putting > versioning in the scheme name. OAuth, OAuth2, and soon we're on > OAuthN+1 seemed to be the objection. Some are passionate about it and > no one was sufficiently passionate about going with OAuth2 and some > kind of token_type. > > Logically token_type doesn't actually fully describe the possibilities, > since we can extend to signed requests etc that don't include a token > per se. > > So... since the extensions were going to be broken out into their own > specs, I believe the thought was to have those specs define their own > namespaces. There is certainly a land grab problem there on the scheme > namespace. > > I personally don't have a preference, but it does seem cleaner to me to > have an IANA style registry for the OAuth2 auth_subtype= or some such. > > -bill > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On > Behalf > > Of Marius Scurtescu > > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2011 6:26 PM > > To: Mike Jones > > Cc: OAuth WG > > Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Bear token scheme name > > > > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Mike Jones > > <michael.jo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I'd like a sense from the working group whether others want this > > change, and > > > if so, what the name should be changed to. > > > > Probably this was debated, but I will ask again. > > > > Why can't we use "OAuth2" as the scheme in all cases and require a > > token_type name/value pair? > > > > Is it wise to dump lots of new schemes in a name space we do not > > control? > > > > Marius > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
