As written in the I-D, the use case does call for person-to-person sharing, which OAuth in its current state doesn't really cover. If you do want to achieve that outcome, User-Managed Access, built on top of OAuth, specializes in it. You can find out more at http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/Home . (We're holding a Twitter #umachat this Wednesday 9-10am PT if you want to deep-dive on UMA one tweet at a time.)
Eve On 11 Mar 2012, at 7:10 PM, David Fox wrote: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zeltsan-oauth-use-cases-02#section-3.8 > > In order to achieve the use case above, how would the client (a.k.a the > resource owner in this case) specify which user to authorize? > > Would the correct approach be to make a request to the Authorization Server > with the grant type set to "client_credentials" and set the scope to > user=user_id (where user_id would be the identifier for the user Bob)? > > -David > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth Eve Maler http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog +1 425 345 6756 http://www.twitter.com/xmlgrrl
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