>> This is mostly fine, but I am wondering if the ACAP vendor name registry (RFC
>> 6075), the OID vendor names, or DNS names can be recommended for the
>> prefix (to satisfy the "SHOULD be prefixed by an identifying name when
>> possible" requirement)?
...
> The main reason for allowing this kind of extensibility is to align the 
> protocol
> with common practice which is to add vendor specific parameters without
> registration. Expecting vendors (and there are going to be hundreds of
> them, unlike the handful of companies in the ACAP registry) to follow
> another registry (especially one like ACAP) is just not practical for this
> particular use case.
>
> Also, given that we are talking about URI query parameters which tend
> to be short, using DNS names is unlikely to win much adoption. Reality
> is, there are already plenty of such parameters deployed with OAuth
> 1.0 and 2.0 drafts.

Makes sense.

> I would like to ask the chairs to close this issue with no additional changes.

I think that's right.  Alexey, any further objection or comment?

Barry, as chair
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