This is not new. This is meeting the need expressed in draft 10, Section 3.2.1
and draft 11, Section 4.3.1 as "[[ Add mechanism for extending error codes ]]".
It's there to provide a coordination mechanism among OAuth-related
specifications so that different specs use the same errors for the same thing.
-- Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: David Recordon [mailto:record...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 4:15 PM
To: Mike Jones
Cc: oauth@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Vote: Location of OAuth Errors Registry, deadline
Friday, March 18
I still haven't seen an explanation of what this registry accomplishes or why
it's become needed in the past few weeks.
--David
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Mike Jones <michael.jo...@microsoft.com>
wrote:
> As you know, the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token draft -03 established the
> OAuth Errors Registry to increase interoperability among
> implementations using the related OAuth specifications. As you also
> know, there has been some discussion about whether:
>
>
>
> A) The OAuth Errors Registry belongs in in the Framework
> specification rather than the bearer token specification,
>
> B) The OAuth Errors Registry should continue to be defined in the
> Bearer Token specification and apply to all OAuth specifications,
>
> C) The OAuth Errors Registry should reside in the Bearer Token
> specification but be scoped back to only apply to that specification,
> or
>
> D) The OAuth Errors Registry should be deleted because the set of
> errors should not be extensible.
>
>
>
> Please vote for A, B, C, or D by Friday, March 18th.
>
>
>
> I personally believe that A makes the most sense, but given that other
> points of view have also been voiced, this consensus call is needed to
> resolve the issue.
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Mike
>
>
>
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