On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Hans Granqvist <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > The reasoning behind this is that while "scope" is a common approach,
> > it's not the only approach. For example, I may want to simply limit
> > access to "read-only/write-only/read-write", or maybe (e.g., for
> > academic article databases) "link/abstract/full article", or any
> > number of other possibilities and intersections. There's no way that
> > OAuth could or should describe these possibilities.
>
> But... could not all operations be reduced to a set of HTTP operations
> on URLs? As HTTP verbs against a representation?
>
> It seems anything that you want to manipulate should be able to be
> represented itself as a resource. Although I have mellowed a bit, one of
> my pet peeves around OAuth is that the protocol doesn't follow this web
> philosophy.


I'm curious what you think about Ian McKellar's concept of "authorized
changesets":

http://ianloic.com/2009/01/05/a-different-model-for-web-services-authorization/

The time delay to approve the changes sounds less than ideal, but still
worth contemplating.



> It's a trade-off I am sure, but I would have loved it if the standard had
> decoupled the token issuer from the token verifier. In that way, you would
> not need the dance of triage; the consumer simply present a correct token
> to access a resource. "Correctness" can be ascertained solely from the
> presented token + presenter's identity. In that way the token can be issued
> by anyone at anytime.
>
> SAML and Kerberos anyone? ;)


I don't think that that's the behavior that we saw in the wild.

Perhaps it's something to bring up on the OAuth list for future work?

Chris

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