Hi all, 

I just looked at the use case document and a few questions came to my mind:

* Who is the lead editor? 

* The abstract and the introduction explain the history of why the document 
exists. You may want to change that to an introduction that describes what use 
cases are in the document and why you have chosen them instead of thousands of 
others,  and why the reader should look into them. After some time (and 
particularly after the publication as an RFC) it does not matter whether the 
use cases got collected between IETF 77 and IETF 78.  

* The reference to RFC 2119 is not needed and Section 2 is not needed. 

* More important, however, is the question of what use cases should be covered 
in the document and how you call them. Needless to say that there are many use 
cases for OAuth. For example, I believe it makes little sense to list use cases 
according to what data is exchanged (social networking information vs. travel 
plans vs. payment information). So, what are the distinguishing aspects that 
make it worthwhile for a use cases to be included? 

I would say that the different protocol profiles somehow have to be covered. 
This includes the different cases for the various authorization grants. I would 
also say that different security levels matter.  If you do that then it would 
also be useful to connect the individual use cases back to the other working 
group documents via references. 

Other aspects that could matter are different implementation strategies or 
different user appearance. On the latter the device flow is an example. 

In any case, you have to decide what the criteria are since this determines 
your target audience. Who do you expect will most likely benefit from reading 
this document? 

There are various use cases in the document that are not sufficiently different 
from the rest unless you highlight some aspects that you think are really 
essential. 

Ciao
Hannes

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