Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-31 Thread Lukas Rosenstock
2010/10/29 John Panzer : > I think that it would be good to have a writeup like this that describes the > differences and pros and cons of each approach. Perhaps on a Wiki page? Feel free to copy this to a wiki page: 1) Server-side requirements: - XRD/Webfinger: creating .well-known, placing a st

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-29 Thread John Panzer
I think that it would be good to have a writeup like this that describes the differences and pros and cons of each approach. Perhaps on a Wiki page? Some random thoughts: One thing: host-meta is highly cacheable, so the # of round trips will hopefully be comparable for large services with signif

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-29 Thread Lukas Rosenstock
Hello! This draft is looking nice, the idea and specification is simple and straightforward. I would like to draw the connection to other discovery approaches. The introductory example in the draft was this one: GET /.well-known/simple-web-discovery?principal=mailto:j...@example.com&service=urn:a

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Jones
These posts of Yaron's outline the basic vision and flows: http://www.goland.org/adhocauthentication/ http://www.goland.org/oauthgenericdelegation/ We hope to also come out with a description in Internet-draft style soon to provide concrete details about possible i

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-26 Thread Dick Hardt
On 2010-10-26, at 4:33 PM, Mike Jones wrote: > Having a simple discovery method for services and resources is key to > enabling many Internet scenarios that require interactions among parties that > do not have pre-established relationships. For instance, if Joe, with e-mail > address j...@ex

[OAUTH-WG] Simple Web Discovery

2010-10-26 Thread Mike Jones
Having a simple discovery method for services and resources is key to enabling many Internet scenarios that require interactions among parties that do not have pre-established relationships. For instance, if Joe, with e-mail address j...@example.com, wants to share his calendar with Mary, then