Pelle Braendgaard wrote:
> It just happens
> that due to Yahoo probably being the oldest company involved in the
> process, it is having the hardest time dealing with the concept of
> open.
>   
Hi Pelle,

Just to reiterate Eran's followup, Yahoo has been engaged in OAuth from 
nearly the beginning. Unfortunately, we were unable to directly 
contribute to the 1.0 spec due to IPR and other business issues, which 
have since been resolved.

With regards to being open, when we were finally able to openly 
participate in OAuth , we wanted to be as transparent as possible when 
we proposed the Session Extension. We fully documented our motivation 
for proposing the extension on the public Google Group, and we directly 
reached out to many OAuth implementors for their feedback, and we even 
hosted an OAuth Summit at Yahoo HQ.

Yahoo has technical requirements that are different than the 
requirements of the companies that contributed to the 1.0 spec.  We had 
the option to remain entirely proprietary and stick with Yahoo BBAuth, 
or to adopt an open standard like OAuth. Rather than sticking with a 
completely proprietary protocol, we chose to work with the community to 
build on the OAuth standard.

Allen


 

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