On 4/1/10 11:37 AM, "Marius Scurtescu" <[email protected]> wrote:

> SAML assertions contain the expiry inside, the OAuth "expires"
> parameter would be redundant, maybe this is way it is optional?

The token expiration doesn't have to be the same as the assertion.

> But, do we want to make this parameter required in general? Why not
> leave it optional for all flows? What if an Authorization Server
> implements some other mechanism to expire them (number of uses for
> example) and a fixed expiry time does not make sense?

The expiration parameter should be optional everywhere. If it is not, its
because I didn't get to it (or messed up).


EHL


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