Thanks!

On 21 Apr 2010, at 5:12 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:

> This is part of the delegation flows so username should be just fineā€¦
>  
> EHL
>  
> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Eve 
> Maler
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:43 PM
> To: OAuth WG
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Issue: 'username' parameter proposal
>  
> Tacking this response to the end of the thread for lack of a better place to 
> do it: The name "username" seems not quite apt in the case of an autonomous 
> client that isn't representing an end-user. Would "identifier" be better? 
> (Actually, it sort of reminds me of SAML's "SessionIndex"...) Or would the 
> parameter be reserved for user-delegation flows?
>  
> Speaking of autonomous clients, Section 2.2 -- among possibly other places -- 
> states that an autonomous client is also the resource owner, but that's not 
> always the case, is it? The client might be seeking access on behalf of 
> itself. (FWIW, I made roughly this same comment on David's first draft on 
> March 21, and he agreed with my suggested fix at the time.)
>  
>           Eve
>  


Eve Maler
e...@xmlgrrl.com
http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog

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