I believe that no syntax changes are necessary.

Of the three possible changes described below, I particularly believe that (3) 
is completely unnecessary, as there is nothing that authenticates to the Token 
Endpoint other than the client.  Thus, adding “client_” to the name adds no 
useful semantic content.  This proposed change is especially superfluous.

                                                            -- Mike

From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Phil 
Hunt
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:21 AM
To: Justin Richer
Cc: oauth@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Proposed Syntax Changes in Dynamic Registration

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<mailto: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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