+1. The OAuth charter conversation is happening on the IETF list. Chris
On 2/2/09, Krishna Sankar (ksankar) <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > IMHO, you should raise this in the IETF list as it pertains to the > charter. > I think this is an important topic. > Cheers > <k/> > > |-----Original Message----- > |From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > |Of Onyx Raven > |Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 11:16 AM > |To: [email protected] > |Subject: [oauth] OAuth only for HTTP request signing? > | > | > |I see the following line in the ITEF charter: > | > | * A mechanism for signing HTTP requests with the token-secret pair > | > |Is the 'core' OAuth specification going to be limited only to HTTP, or > |is there opportunity and reason to make it a general method of signing > |method, resource and parameters of a programmatic request for the > |purpose of consumer authorization and user credential delegation? It > |seems like other protocols could use the same signing and delegation > |methodology (probably with some hybrid using HTTP), but may not be > |'traditional' HTTP (eg, XMPP http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0235.html) > |during requests. Or, would the 'extensions' go the other way, defining > |how other protocols might use the same methods, or in a generic sense? > | > |I guess I wonder if defining only HTTP and not calling out generic > |usage could make using OAuth in other areas somewhat more difficult > |from a standards perspective. > | > |(I wasn't sure which list to ask this on - it seems somewhat more to > |do with Core than the current discussions on the ITEF list) > | > | > > > > -- Chris Messina Citizen-Participant & Open Web Advocate-at-Large factoryjoe.com # diso-project.org citizenagency.com # vidoop.com This email is: [ ] bloggable [X] ask first [ ] private --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
