Hi All, So Hannes and Derek and I have been discussing this with the Apps ADs and Apps-area WG chairs. I've also read the docs now, and after all that we've decided that this topic (what to do with swd and webfinger) is best handled in the apps area and not in the oauth WG.
The logic for that is that 1) the two proposals are doing the same thing and we don't want two different standards for that, b) this is not an oauth-specific thing nor is it a general security thing, and c) there is clearly already interest in the topic in the apps area so its reasonable for the oauth wg to use that when its ready. The appsawg chairs and apps ADs are ok with the work being done there. So:- - I've asked the oauth chairs to take doing work on swd out of the proposed new charter - It may be that you want to add something saying that oauth will use the results of work in the applications area on a web discovery protocol as a basis for doing the dynamic client registration work here - Discussion of webfinger and swd should move over to the apps-discuss list - Note: this is not picking one or the other approach, the plan is that the apps area will do any selection needed and figure out the best starting point for a standards-track RFC on web discovery and we'll use their fine work for doing more with oauth. Regards, Stephen. On 04/12/2012 12:00 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > Hi all, > > those who had attended the last IETF meeting may have noticed the ongoing > activity in the 'Applications Area Working Group' regarding Web Finger. > We had our discussion regarding Simple Web Discovery (SWD) as part of the > re-chartering process. > > Here are the two specifications: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-appsawg-webfinger-03 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-simple-web-discovery-02 > > Now, the questions that seems to be hanging around are > > 1) Aren't these two mechanisms solving pretty much the same problem? > 2) Do we need to have two standards for the same functionality? > 3) Do you guys have a position or comments regarding either one of them? > > Ciao > Hannes > > PS: Please also let me know if your view is: "I don't really know what all > this is about and the documents actually don't provide enough requirements to > make a reasonable judgement about the solution space." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth > _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth
