Makes sense. Personally, I don't have any preference on including it or not.

EHL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian Campbell
> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 5:49 AM
> To: oauth
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Proposed language for section 2.2 on Client
> Assertions
> 
> A client_id parameter would still be presented in the end user authorization
> request. The text Brian E. quoted is what mandates any
> specifications/documents/agreements that define how to use client
> assertions must also define the association between the client_id and some
> field(s) in the assertion.
> 
> If someone sees a cleaner way to deal with client identity on the user
> authorization request when using assertions to authenticate the client
> to the token endpoint, please speak up and lets discuss it.   However,
> in general I do feel it's important to have better defined support in the core
> OAuth spec to allow for client authentication methods beyond just
> password.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Brian Eaton <bea...@google.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav
> <e...@hueniverse.com> wrote:
> >> How do you link the client_id using in the authorization endpoint with the
> client assertion using in the token endpoint?
> >
> > In theory:
> >
> > "any document that defines how to use an assertion of a particular
> > type with OAuth 2.0 MUST define how to map the value from the
> > client_id parameter in the authorization request to a value or values
> > in the assertion subsequently submitted with the code to obtain an
> > access token."
> >
> > In practice: you do it the same way you handle any kind of identity
> > assertion.  There is some combination of issuer and subject and
> > signature that ends up producing an identity that you trust.
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