I certainly don't think it's dead - Eran makes some important points and the 
current 2.0 spec has certainly dragged a long time to get final. The biggest 
concern is fragmentation between implementations - the suggestion of using a 
concrete instantiation (e.g. Facebook) only take you so far. 

The IETF group is still a legitimate body, with a legitimate process - however 
given the nature of the criticisms and who they come from, I'd hope someone 
from that group steps forward and outlines a response and -- for the legitimate 
comments perhaps an evolutionary path. 

There are also some other potential efforts to monkey patch oAuth 1.0a - eg. 
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294959, but who knows where these 
will go.

I wouldn't call oAuth dead - it's the best pattern we have for this kind of 
thing, but there's certainly a danger of fragmentation right now.

 steve.


On Jul 29, 2012, at 6:24 AM, André Fiedler wrote:

> OAuth 2.0 and the Road to Hell:
> http://hueniverse.com/2012/07/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell/
> 
> 
> 2012/4/15 Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]>
> You can subscribe to the IETF OAuth mailing list here:
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/charter/
> 
> (On the left side you can find the links to the subscribe page as well as to 
> the archive. If you look at the archive at 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/maillist.html you will 
> notice that there are "a few mails since May 2009...)
> 
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:06 AM, André Fiedler wrote:
> 
> > Ok, many thanks for your answers. So I will build upon OAuth (OAuth 
> > Provider) and hope this is the right step.
> >
> > 2012/3/21 Nat Sakimura <[email protected]>
> > So it has moved on to IETF from oauth.org.
> >
> > Google, Facebook among others have been implementing OAuth 2.0 various 
> > revisions to this date.
> > OAuth 2.0 in IETF is near its completion.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Nat
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:16 AM, SunboX <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> > Last Blog-Post on oauth.net is from may 2009. All php libraries are
> > sleeping since one year (http://code.google.com/p/oauth-php/source/
> > list).
> > Who did see OAuth 2.0 somewhere?
> >
> > Is OAuth death?
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