An interesting thought!

It is true that interoperability testing is a requirement for an advancement of a Proposed Standard to Draft Standard, so surely OAuth interoperability testing must take place. I I don't recall test suits defined per se in the IETF. Not that it has not happened--it simply has not happened in the groups I worked in or followed. I remember SIP bake-offs progressing well, but not tested to a specific test case set.

Very roughly, the use case document does identify pre- and post conditions, but this may not provide enough granularity. Maybe it can be used as a starting point though.

Igor

On 8/23/2012 10:49 PM, Eve Maler wrote:
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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