That's how I feel. In other words, we need to make the protocol configuration 
simple enough that this is all discovery needs.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of John Panzer
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:39 PM
> To: Paul C. Bryan
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth XRD?
> 
> Www-Authenticate plus Link headers seem like they would involve minimal
> wheel re-invention.
> 
> On Wednesday, February 24, 2010, Paul C. Bryan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > I've been mostly following the pattern in your XRD-Based OAuth
> > Discovery Sneak Peek, where a client can discover how to interact with
> > an OAuth token service in reaction to the OAuth challenge. What got me
> > second-guessing this was a passing reference to OAuth in the example
> > in XRD version 1.0.
> >
> > I'm asking now because in the process of simplifying the UMA spec, I
> > need to decide on some of the OAuth discovery mechanisms it will use.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 19:40 -0700, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
> >> No idea. I am not sure yet what the discovery requirements are. For
> >> example, are clients expected to be familiar with each of the
> >> token-obtaining profiles and just need a single URI for each
> >> supported mechanism? XRD is useful for describing a bunch of links
> >> for such endpoints, but it might just be that the discovery
> >> information can be provided directly in the header.
> >>
> >> Until we know what OAuth 2.0 looks like, we can't really discuss
> >> discovery much.
> >>
> >> Is there a reason why you are asking now?
> >>
> >> EHL
> >>
> >> > -----Original Message-----
> >> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> >> Behalf
> >> > Of Paul C. Bryan
> >> > Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:30 AM
> >> > To: [email protected]
> >> > Subject: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth XRD?
> >> >
> >> > This is a message directed mostly at Eran:
> >> >
> >> > Is the OAuth 2.0 discovery mechanism still expected to be via a
> >> "provider"
> >> > attribute in the WWW-Authenticate header, or is host-meta expected
> >> to
> >> > take over?
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >> >
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