Thanks for your input Nate. 

To the questions others had below earlier I was wondering whether it is known 
that the IETF tools page shows the current status of all documents. Here is the 
link: http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/

So, for draft-ietf-oauth-v2-31 it says that it is with the RFC Editor. 
The RFC Editor reads through the documents and corrects editorial bugs. 
 
On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:48 PM, Nate Ferrero wrote:

> Just a note from the perspective of someone who just created an OAuth 
> provider library for my company. OAuth 2 allows for relatively high security 
> (tokens expire every hour for us, and no client secret is passed to the front 
> end). I think people should just start implementing it in a limited way to 
> satisfy their needs.
> 
> On Thursday, August 2, 2012 10:11:49 PM UTC-7, =nat wrote:
> There is one glitch to be sort out: the mime type for form encoding is not 
> IANA registered. It should be registered by W3C. 
> However, I expect it to be sort out pretty quickly. 
> 
> Hannes, do you have any comment? 
> 
> Nat
> 
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Steven WIllmott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Nat, 
> 
> Yes, indeed - just saw that on twitter, after sending the below. That's good 
> news - do you know what the expectation is for finalization?
> 
>  thanks and all the best,
>  steve.
> 
> On Aug 1, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
> 
>> Hi Steve, 
>> 
>> Actually, the OAuth 2.0 Core and Bearer specs were approved by IESG to be 
>> sent to RFC Editor as of today. 
>> That means, it is essentially done. 
>> 
>> Nat
>> 
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Steven WIllmott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Hannes,
>> 
>> Thanks for your answer - I can definitely understand the sentiments and of 
>> course as you mentioned before there is more than one side of the story and 
>> this absolutely isn't one person's decision! Also maybe official statements 
>> are not appropriate / possible but I would ask (and I think a lot of people 
>> would):
>> 
>>  1. Will the IETF group complete the process and still finalize a full 
>> specification as forseen? (and in the
>>      timeframe forseen - I think the charter runs to 2013 if I'm not wrong.
>> 
>>  2. Will there be any activity which takes on board / responds to some of 
>> the points made by Eran? (Note
>>      I'm not saying there is an obligation - just that it feels like some 
>> acknowledgement would make sense
>>      and a idea that the comments had been "received and considered" (or 
>> not)).
>> 
>> You stated that Eran would disagree - which may be true of course, but I 
>> don't think this is a reason not to make statements.
>> 
>> I guess what I'm trying to say above all is that people will be trying to 
>> make decisions about adoption and it would be helpful to have a forward 
>> looking statement from the IETF group as to where things are headed. Even if 
>> this is not at all in doubt for the group, it might be when seen from the 
>> outside.
>> 
>> Don't know if that makes some kind of sense.
>> 
>>  steve.
>> 
>> On Aug 1, 2012, at 2:42 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi Steven,
>> >
>> > I don't think there will be a formal response and here are the reasons:
>> >
>> > a) the press does not seem to be interested to spend time looking at 
>> > details since otherwise they would have at least gotten more input prior 
>> > to post their stories. They did, however, only copy text from Eran's blog 
>> > post.
>> >
>> > b) Eran is not likely to agree with us regardless of what we write. He did 
>> > not care about the views of others during the past few years either.
>> >
>> > c) Those who had worked on an implementation and deployed OAuth 2.0 do not 
>> > need any formal response from us. They have already experienced OAuth 2.0 
>> > and they, as many posts confirm, do not find it complicated to implement 
>> > nor to deploy.
>> >
>> > d) Those who are thinking about using OAuth 2.0 need to think what they 
>> > are trying to accomplish. Those trying to write their own OAuth 2.0 
>> > library will have to read through the specification. There is no way 
>> > around it. Application developers, who are just using OAuth, will have to 
>> > think about their use case. For example, if you want to write an 
>> > application that uses Facebook then you will have to look at their SDK. 
>> > For all the others who are creating their own application deployment (like 
>> > a site that offers access to a protected resource) I suggest to re-use one 
>> > of the existing libraries (instead of implementing OAuth from scratch).
>> > For this group I doubt they are interested in any standardization related 
>> > discussion.
>> >
>> > I hope that this makes sense to you. If you have any recommendations of 
>> > what guidance developers would like to see I am sure we can put some 
>> > information together.
>> >
>> > Ciao
>> > Hannes
>> >
>> > On Jul 29, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Steven WIllmott wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Hannes,
>> >>
>> >> Do you think there will some sort of (semi?)formal response from the IETF 
>> >> group? I can understand that they might not want to, but some of the 
>> >> points made seem salient, the problem is/will become what recommendations 
>> >> go out to people what to implement.
>> >>
>> >> We get that question very regularly from users, so we have our thinking 
>> >> caps on at the moment.
>> >>
>> >> steve.
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 29, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>> >>> 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 <[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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