Not to be pedantic, but adding OAuth support is a mechanism in support
of a goal. What's the end goal?

* Letting third party apps use the datatracker API?
* Letting people sign in to other apps with a datatracker account?

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 2:05 PM Salz, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
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> As I said at the start of the thread: I want to add OAUTH support to the 
> datatracker.
>
>
>
> From: Dick Hardt <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, August 18, 2019 at 4:47 PM
> To: Rich Salz <[email protected]>
> Cc: Hans Zandbelt <[email protected]>, John Bradley 
> <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Info on how to implement a server
>
>
>
> What is the goal?
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 12:41 PM Salz, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Thanks for the links, folks.  I’m aware, and sorry for my sloppy terminology.
>
>
>
> Imagine a service where anyone with a valid identity is authorized. There are 
> many of these on the net. Collapsing authentication to authorization 
> (“everyone authenticated is authorized”) seems not unreasonable.
>
>
>
> But I don’t want to get distracted from my main goal.  Thanks.
>
>
>
> From: Hans Zandbelt <[email protected]>
> Date: Saturday, August 17, 2019 at 2:34 PM
> To: John Bradley <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Info on how to implement a server
>
>
>
> indeed OAuth != identity see https://oauth.net/articles/authentication/
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>
>
> Hans.
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> On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:31 PM John Bradley <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The openID Connect kind of OAuth server.
>
> OAuth on its own is not designed to be secure for identity federation.
>
> John B.
>
> On 8/17/2019 1:23 PM, Salz, Rich wrote:
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> What’s the WG consensus (heh) on the best guide to adding OAUTH support to an 
> existing server so that it can act as an identity provider?  Which version of 
> oauth is most widely deployed by relying parties these days?
>
>
>
> I want to add OAUTH support to the IETF datatracker.
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>
>
> Thanks for any pointers.  Replies to me will be summarized for the list.
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>                 /r$
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