Hi Brian,

we should definitely take your work into account and I recall some other
drafts on the same subject being published some time ago as well.

Adding more co-authors to this working group item makes a lot of sense
to me.

Ciao
Hannes


On 08/11/2014 04:42 PM, Brian Campbell wrote:
> I'd be okay with that as a way forward. Frankly, of course, I'd prefer
> to see draft-campbell-oauth-sts as the starting point with Mike and the
> other draft-jones-oauth-token-exchange authors added as co-authors.
> Regardless, there are elements from both that likely need to end up in
> the final work so a consolidation of authors and concepts makes sense.
> 
> And yes, there are lots of details that the working group will need to
> decide on going forward that we shouldn't get hung up on right now.
> Though I believe that deciding if the token endpoint is used for general
> token exchange is an important philosophical question that should be
> answered first. If the token endpoint is to be used, I strongly belie
> that this token exchange should leverage and work within the constructs
> provided and defined by OAuth. That's the direction I took with
> draft-campbell-oauth-sts and yes that involves overloading the
> access_token response parameter with something that's not always
> strictly an access token. The existing token endpoint request/response
> are already rather close to what one might expect in an STS type
> exchange. I find there's a nice elegant simplicity to it but I also see
> where that discomfort might come from. If there's consensus to not
> use/overload the existing stuff, I think it'd be much more appropriate
> to define a new endpoint. A lot of syntactic stuff likely falls out from
> that decision.

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