I agree with approach #3.

As for the delimiter, I'm fine if the spec wants to do space-delimited. 

Just FYI Facebook will also continue to support and document commas in addition 
to whatever the spec says, because spaces are typically URL-encoded while 
commas are considered reserved characters and so not encoded. It's easier to 
write "read,write" than "read%20write".

On Apr 30, 2010, at 6:11 PM, Marius Scurtescu wrote:

> +1 for #3.
> 
> If the delimiter becomes an issue then:
> - for application/x-www-form-urlencoded and query parameters we can
> allow multiple values for this parameter
> - for json this parameter can be defined as an array
> 
> Marius
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Allen Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I vote for #3
>> 
>> There are already plenty of implementations that use a scope parameter:
>> 
>> Facebook:
>> http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/
>> 
>> Google:
>> http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth_ref.html#RequestToken
>> 
>> Flickr: (called "perm")
>> http://www.flickr.com/services/api/auth.spec.html
>> 
>> Yahoo currently requires developers to tell us the scopes that they need
>> when registering for a consumer key. We've received plenty of feedback that
>> developers would rather specify the scope(s) at authorization time, so we
>> would support a multi-valued scope parameter. Space is a reasonable
>> delimiter.
>> 
>> Allen
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/30/10 8:43 AM, "Eran Hammer-Lahav" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> 3. Space-Delimited Scope Parameter Value
>>> 
>>> Define a 'scope' parameter with value of space-delimited strings (which can
>>> include any character that is not a space - the entire parameter value is
>>> encoded per the transport rules regardless). Space allows using URIs or 
>>> simple
>>> strings as values.
>>> 
>>> Pros:
>>> 
>>> - A separator-delimited list of values is the common format for scope
>>> parameters in existing implementations and represents actual deployment
>>> experience.
>>> - Most vendors define a set of opaque strings used for requesting scope. 
>>> This
>>> enables libraries to concatenate these in a standard way.
>>> - Enables simple extensions in the future for discovering which scope is
>>> required by each resource.
>>> 
>>> Cons:
>>> 
>>> - Defining a format without a discovery method for the values needs doesn't
>>> offer much more than the other options.
>>> - Doesn't go far enough to actually achieve interoperability.
>>> - Adds complexity for little value.
>>> 
>>> 
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