Perhaps relatedly, in the UMA group we've been defining feature tests for
interoperability testing, and since UMA uses OAuth, we wondered if any OAuth
feature tests exist; we couldn't find any. That might be another activity
worthy of being taken up by such a community. (Both UMA and OpenID Connect are
using the OSIS.idcommons.net wiki for interop testing.)
Eve
On 23 Aug 2012, at 7:51 AM, John Bradley <ve7...@ve7jtb.com> wrote:
> The openID foundation is in a position of promoting OAuth 2 now as a
> significant dependency of openID Connect and other work.
>
> I can ask the board if there is a interest in hosting something specific for
> OAuth 2.
>
> I agree with Justin, now that the core spec is done there needs to be some
> consideration put to marketing and support by someone.
> This WG has new work items to progress so we probably don't want to get
> bogged down with that in this group.
>
> I will wait to see the discussion on this here before asking OIDF or anyone
> else if they want to set something up.
>
> John B.
> On 2012-08-23, at 10:38 AM, Justin Richer wrote:
>
>> With the core specs basically out the door and seeing wider adoption and
>> publicity, the OAuth community is going to start to get more questions about
>> "how do I do X?", and many of these are questions that have been answered
>> before or seem "obvious" to those of us who have been up to our ears in the
>> spec for the past few years. Nevertheless, these are important questions to
>> support for the wellbeing of the protocol community, but where should they
>> be asked?
>>
>> When the OAuth community lived on a simple Google Group, these kinds of
>> questions make sense. But I'd argue that the IETF list is not really the
>> right place for them. This list, and the IETF in general, seems to be best
>> suited for *building* the protocol, not for the *use* and *support* of said
>> protocol once it's built.
>>
>> The problem is that, as of right now, we don't have anywhere to point people
>> where they could get a "real" answer.
>>
>> This opens a larger question of who might "sponsor" or "host" such a
>> community. Anything like that needs moderators, and more importantly, needs
>> experts willing to answer the questions. Some options I can think of:
>>
>> - Revive the google groups list for these kinds of questions/discussions
>> - Start a new list/forum, linked to oauth.net
>> - Point everyone to StackOverflow with an "oauth" tag
>>
>>
>> -- Justin (who is not volunteering himself to host or moderate the group)
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