On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <[email protected]> wrote: > I rarely speak on behalf of Yahoo! but I find this post misleading and > unnecessarily negative. I was not working for Yahoo! at the time most of this > took place. > > Yahoo! approached the community soon after the OAuth specification was > completed to find ways to accommodate their unique requirements. For many > reasons, Yahoo! was unable to participate in the specification creation > process (the Flickr engineers who participated and contributed greatly use > very little of the Yahoo! infrastructure and generally do not represent > Yahoo! needs). > > In their attempt to address significant shortcomings in the specification, > they reached out to other large providers (AOL, Google, MySpace, Microsoft > were some) as well as to individual community leaders (Blaine Cook, Chris > Messina, David Recordon, and myself). It turned out that Yahoo!'s issues were > not unique and were shared by others large providers.
[snip] Can all this oral history go in to the oauth wiki somewhere please? Otherwise newcomers will retread the same ground (cf. Tantek's similar observations on the OWF list). cheers, Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
