I also never really understood why XRD was re-used. Btw, XRD is not used by any of the current OAuth WG documents, see http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/
On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > * XRD -- XRD is an OASIS spec that's used by OpenID and OAuth. Maybe I'm just > scarred by WS-*, but it seems very over-engineered for what it does. I > understand that the communities had reasons for using it to leverage an > existing user base for their specific user cases, but I don't see any reason > to generalise such a beast into a generic mechanism. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
