Hi Prateek,

> I would like to strongly disagree with this proposal.
> 
> It amounts to explicitly making OAuth 2.0 insecure so as to
> satisfy some mysterious and unspecified set of legacy OAuth
> 1.0 deployments.
> 
> The SAML web SSO (artifact) profile - which shares many
> characteristics with the initial steps in OAuth - requires
> precisely such a counter-measure and is widely implemented
> in 1000s of deployments.

What counter-measure is this?  Can you provide a reference?
Section 4.1.3.5 of 
http://docs.oasis-open.org/security/saml/v2.0/saml-profiles-2.0-os.pdf
recommends TLS but does not require it.

Francisco


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