Keep in mind there may be other changes coming. 

The issue is that new developers can't figure out what token is being referred 
to. 

Phil

On 2013-05-20, at 8:09, Justin Richer <jric...@mitre.org> wrote:

> Phil Hunt's review of the Dynamic Registration specification has raised a 
> couple of issues that I felt were getting buried by the larger discussion 
> (which I still strongly encourage others to jump in to). Namely, Phil has 
> suggested a couple of syntax changes to the names of several parameters. 
> 
> 
> 1) expires_at -> client_secret_expires_at
> 2) issued_at -> client_id_issued_at
> 3) token_endpoint_auth_method -> token_endpoint_client_auth_method
> 
> 
> I'd like to get a feeling, especially from developers who have deployed this 
> draft spec, what we ought to do for each of these:
> 
>  A) Keep the parameter names as-is
>  B) Adopt the new names as above
>  C) Adopt a new name that I will specify
> 
> In all cases, clarifying text will be added to the parameter *definitions* so 
> that it's more clear to people reading the spec what each piece does. 
> Speaking as the editor: "A" is the default as far as I'm concerned, since we 
> shouldn't change syntax without very good reason to do so. That said, if it's 
> going to be better for developers with the new parameter names, I am open to 
> fixing them now.
> 
> Naming things is hard.
> 
>  -- Justin
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