We seem to be spending a lot of time on the question of how providers 
supporting both flows can tell which flow is being used. If they simply offer a 
new set of 3 endpoints: request token, authorize, and access token, this entire 
problem goes away. It also removed the need to make the oauth_callback 
mandatory in the new flow, or use literal strings to indicate out-of-band.

New flow endpoints - always requires verification code to get access token, 
which is delivered using a callback is available (via the parameter or 
registration), otherwise manually.

Old flow endpoints - broken business as usual with scary language.

This leaves all the actual API endpoints untouched, unchanged, unbroken. Any 
existing code will need to change to use the new flow which means it can as 
easily point to new endpoints. This is also consistent with how the discovery 
proposal works (which shows it is not a new idea).

New providers have no reason to support the old flow. This is really only about 
30 or so providers with OAuth endpoints *today*.

Why not?

EHL



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