I would suggest a SHOULD NOT instead of MUST, there are still sites using this 
and a grace period should be provided before a MUST is pushed out as there are 
valid use cases out there still.

From: OAuth <oauth-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Dick Hardt
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2020 12:37 PM
To: oauth@ietf.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.1: dropping password grant

Hey List

(Once again using the OAuth 2.1 name as a placeholder for the doc that Aaron, 
Torsten, and I are working on)

In the security topics doc

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-14#section-2.4<https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftools.ietf.org%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-14%23section-2.4&data=02%7C01%7Ctonynad%40microsoft.com%7C47bb597eef584c95ba4108d7b4b274b2%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637176550905333283&sdata=nA1S7TBfZg6cSwY2hI8hpRXhIA2joaaJFmNXrATgr2Y%3D&reserved=0>

The password grant MUST not be used.

Some background for those interested. I added this grant into OAuth 2.0 to 
allow applications that had been provided password to migrate. Even with the 
caveats in OAuth 2.0, implementors decide they want to prompt the user to enter 
their credentials, the anti-pattern OAuth was created to eliminate.


Does anyone have concerns with dropping the password grant from the OAuth 2.1 
document so that developers don't use it?

/Dick
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