On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <[email protected]> wrote:
> No benefit. This would just be the "2.0 way" of doing it.

I see, and that's a good point.

>From an implementation perspective, clients and servers that support
OAuth 1 can easily implement a signature based bridge endpoint. The
OAuth 1 assertion will require both parties to implement new signature
code, and that can be challenging.

Marius

>
> EHL
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 6:13 PM
>> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
>> Cc: OAuth WG ([email protected])
>> Subject: OAuth 1.0 token assertion to OAuth 2.0 token (was: Draft -09)
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > The assertion grant type is really the grant type extension point. 
>> > Libraries
>> should treat it as a way to support custom grant types. One of the things I
>> would like to see someone draft is how to use OAuth 1.0 tokens to obtain
>> OAuth 2.0 tokens using the assertion type. For example, the assertion type
>> can be "http://oauth.net/1.0/token"; , and the assertion itself is some form
>> of the token and signature (or secrets) concatenated into a string (this will
>> maintain the 1.0 security while transitioning to 2.0). This is just a straw 
>> man.
>> >
>> > It is important that libraries support this extensibility with some form 
>> > of a
>> hook or handler so that clients can make requests using assertions from
>> outside the library.
>>
>> An OAuth 1 token assertion as described above would achieve the same
>> thing as the suggested bridge endpoint. Do you see any advantages on using
>> an assertion as opposed to a standard OAuth 1 signed request?
>>
>> Marius
>
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