I do recall password flow was only in 6749 to facilitate transition to oauth.. 
Maybe it is reasonable to consider ending it now.

Phil

> On Feb 18, 2020, at 1:15 PM, Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> There is no need for a grace period. People using OAuth 2.0 can still do 
> OAuth 2.0. People using OAuth 2.1 will do OAuth 2.1. 
> 
>  — Justin
> 
>> On Feb 18, 2020, at 3:54 PM, Anthony Nadalin 
>> <tonynad=40microsoft....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 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
>>  
>> 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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