MAC tokens are a solution, not a use case :-)

As for reaching out, I'll leave it to the chairs to decide how to want to 
proceed.

EHL


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Hunt [mailto:phil.h...@oracle.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:36 PM
> To: Peter Wolanin
> Cc: Eran Hammer-Lahav; Ben Adida; OAuth WG; Adam Barth
> (a...@adambarth.com)
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] MAC Cookies
> 
> Eran,
> 
> I see value (at least for servers) in having browser and HTTP clients work 
> with
> common tokens (e.g. MAC) - even though the mechanism for exchange may
> vary.
> 
> I had an email exchange with Harry Halpin. He suggests cross posting to the
> w3c public-identity list.
> 
> They are discussing web cryptography and MAC tokens may be an important
> use case.
> 
> Phil
> 
> @independentid
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> phil.h...@oracle.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2011-11-23, at 4:57 PM, Peter Wolanin wrote:
> 
> > No objection from me, but it's too bad the browser vendors aren't
> interested.
> >
> > -Peter
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> <e...@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> >> I would like to drop the cookies support defined in the MAC document
> >> due to lack of interest from the browser vendors. At this point it is
> >> most likely going to be an unimplemented proposal. If there is
> >> interest in the future, it can be proposed in a separate document.
> >> This will allow us to bring this work to a quick conclusion.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Any objections?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> EHL
> >>
> >>
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