+1 for postponing this discussion until then

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:45 PM, John Bradley<john.brad...@wingaa.com> wrote:
> I think we have a number of potential ways to skin the proverbial cat.
>
> We can certainly talk this to death.
>
> At some point someone is going to have to do some standards work and pull
> this together.
>
> IIW is probably the next time we are getting together.
>
> Do we want to try and seriously start something before that?
>
> John B.
> On 24-Aug-09, at 9:15 PM, Breno de Medeiros wrote:
>
>> OAuth does not authenticate the OP (Service Provider in this case) and
>> therefore you would have to know a priori arbitrary bindings of OPs to
>> artifact endpoints. Of course, this could be addressed through
>> discovery and if the OP supports SSL then the difference becomes
>> negligible.
>>
>> Also, since this does not require necessarily an authenticated RP,
>> then you could ask what is OAuth buying you anyway. So you only need
>> the XRD part of the XRD+OAuth combo. Hey wait, you still need some
>> additional semantics about making user authorization requests and
>> about attributes, and at that point, using an OpenID-based artifact
>> (which is a variant of stateless mode) sounds like a much more
>> lightweight way to go about it than defining the same additional
>> semantics for OAuth + throwing away requester signatures and keys,
>> etc., etc.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM, John Bradley<john.brad...@wingaa.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The thing that doesn't do for Nat is reduce the size of the request.
>>>
>>> I suppose that there could be a standard oAuth attribute service.
>>>
>>> The largest problem is having the OP know what to have the user
>>> permission.
>>>
>>> One option is to have the OP retrieve a policy document directly from the
>>> RP
>>> so that the user can give consent to what the RP is going to get a oAuth
>>> token for.
>>>
>>> Following this path at some point you would ask what the openID portion
>>> of
>>> openID+oAuth is doing for you?
>>>
>>> So if you add discovery XRD/S to oAuth + a way to deliver a RP policy,
>>>  do
>>> you have a viable alternative to a openID artifact binding.
>>>
>>> Perhaps a heretical question,  but one we should probably explore before
>>> reinventing things.
>>>
>>> John B.
>>> On 24-Aug-09, at 8:45 PM, Allen Tom wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Nat,
>>>>
>>>> Have you considered using the OpenID OAuth Hybrid Extension instead of
>>>> defining a new Artifact binding?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://step2.googlecode.com/svn/spec/openid_oauth_extension/latest/openid_oauth_extension.html
>>>>
>>>> The openid.oauth.request_token response parameter in Section 10 is
>>>> essentially the same thing as an Artifact. Google already supports the
>>>> Hybrid extension, and Yahoo will be launching support for it in the very
>>>> near future, so perhaps we could use use Hybrid to support large
>>>> responses?
>>>>
>>>> Allen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nat Sakimura wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Updated http://wiki.openid.net/OpenIDwithArtifactBinding
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Added description in overview.
>>>>> 2. Added signature in artifact related requests.
>>>>> 3. Separated the Artifact Authentication Request from the
>>>>> Authentication Request and created section 9.1.1 for more readability.
>>>>> 4. Removed 9.4 and moved the text to 9.
>>>>> 5. Other miscellaneous changes.
>>>>>
>>>>> For complete list, see the wiki history.
>>>>>
>>>>> Feature-wise, it is almost complete for the Artifact binding, IMHO.
>>>>> Need feedback from large providers.
>>>>>
>>>>> =nat
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