Wasn't there some concensus that URIs would be good for scope? They
have "in-built namespacing" ...

Lukas

2010/6/23 Dick Hardt <[email protected]>:
>
> On 2010-06-22, at 11:07 PM, Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote:
>
>> "
>>   scope
>>         OPTIONAL.  The scope of the access request expressed as a list
>>         of space-delimited strings.  The value of the "scope" parameter
>>         is defined by the authorization server.  If the value contains
>>         multiple space-delimited strings, their order does not matter,
>>         and each string adds an additional access range to the
>>         requested scope.
>> "
>>
>> Do folks think it would be useful to have standardized values?
>
> Not at this time. The semantics of scope are all over the place. If 
> standardized, people will feel they need to pick one that is close to what 
> they want, but is not exactly what they mean. I think it is better for the AS 
> to define what they mean by a scope and give it a name that makes sense in 
> that context.
>
>>
>> If the answer is "yes", then it would be useful to differentiate the
>> standardized values from those values that are purely defined locally by
>> the authorization server.
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