Thanks for sharing your views, Steve. I agree with your statements below and it would indeed be strange if Eran gets to decide that a technology dies (that is already widely implemented and deployed).
I would have liked to get the specification finished earlier myself and, funny enough, Eran is also responsible for the delay (although not the only person). On Jul 29, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Steven WIllmott wrote: > > 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 <hannes.tschofe...@gmx.net> >> 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 <sakim...@gmail.com> >> > 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 <fiedler.an...@googlemail.com> >> > 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? >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "OAuth" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Nat Sakimura (=nat) >> > Chairman, OpenID Foundation >> > http://nat.sakimura.org/ >> > @_nat_en >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "OAuth" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> > "OAuth" group. >> > To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OAuth" group. >> To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "OAuth" group. >> To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OAuth" group. > To post to this group, send email to oauth@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > oauth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. 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