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

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