Each scheme will have an RFC and will get proper review. If there is consensus 
for a new scheme, the rest doesn't matter. And being able to reuse these 
schemes without having to use a confusing OAuth2 scheme is a big benefit.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 12:47 PM
> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> Cc: Manger, James H; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token specification draft -01
> 
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Marius Scurtescu [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:57 AM
> >> To: Eran Hammer-Lahav
> >> Cc: Manger, James H; [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token specification draft
> >> -01
> >>
> >> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > This is not how most HTTP authentication frameworks work (that was
> >> > the
> >> conclusion from my HTTP Token scheme proposal a year ago). Most
> >> frameworks rather switch on the scheme name, not on a parameter
> >> inside the header.
> >>
> >> The alternative, as suggested by James, requires a new scheme for
> >> each token type. My guess is that we will have quite a few types
> >> pretty
> >> soon:
> >> - bearer opaque
> >> - bearer transparent (JSON, signed by authz server)
> >> - JWT signed
> >> - MAC
> >> - etc.
> >>
> >> Who controls the auth header scheme names? Aren't we asking for a
> >> collision here?
> >
> > Nah. It's a proposed registry and has never been very active.
> 
> Doesn't that mean that we should be even more cautious with creating lots
> of schemes?
> 
> Marius
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