I read the draft and just don’t get it, it overloads some of the basic 
semantics, I’m not quite sure you get the concept of token exchange, has what 
you described been deployed ? or even built ?

From: OAuth [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian Campbell
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2014 7:42 AM
To: Mike Jones
Cc: oauth-cha...@tools.ietf.org; oauth@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confirmation: Call for Adoption of "OAuth 2.0 Token 
Exchange" as an OAuth Working Group Item

I'd be okay with that as a way forward. Frankly, of course, I'd prefer to see 
draft-campbell-oauth-sts as the starting point with Mike and the other 
draft-jones-oauth-token-exchange authors added as co-authors. Regardless, there 
are elements from both that likely need to end up in the final work so a 
consolidation of authors and concepts makes sense.
And yes, there are lots of details that the working group will need to decide 
on going forward that we shouldn't get hung up on right now. Though I believe 
that deciding if the token endpoint is used for general token exchange is an 
important philosophical question that should be answered first. If the token 
endpoint is to be used, I strongly belie that this token exchange should 
leverage and work within the constructs provided and defined by OAuth. That's 
the direction I took with draft-campbell-oauth-sts and yes that involves 
overloading the access_token response parameter with something that's not 
always strictly an access token. The existing token endpoint request/response 
are already rather close to what one might expect in an STS type exchange. I 
find there's a nice elegant simplicity to it but I also see where that 
discomfort might come from. If there's consensus to not use/overload the 
existing stuff, I think it'd be much more appropriate to define a new endpoint. 
A lot of syntactic stuff likely falls out from that decision.
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