Token makes sense in the context of provisioning a more general token
auth header which we overload on.  That said I'm glad we're getting
simpler.   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> On Behalf Of Brian Eaton
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth vs OAuth2 in Authorization header
> 
> Draft 10 switched from "Token" scheme in the authorization 
> header to "OAuth".  I'd rather we didn't reuse OAuth.  
> 'OAuth2' would be great.
> "Token" is ugly as sin, but is better than "OAuth".
> 
> Spec section: 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-10#page-30
> 
> The problem with reusing "OAuth" is that there are existing 
> implementations in the wild that have special behavior 
> implemented for OAuth authorization headers.  Since OAuth2 
> headers don't have the same semantics, we're going to break 
> those implementations.  We shouldn't reuse "OAuth" for the 
> same reasons we shouldn't reuse "Negotiate", "NTLM", 
> "Digest", or "Basic.
> 
> Cheers,
> Brian
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