[OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread Justin Richer
With the core specs basically out the door and seeing wider adoption and publicity, the OAuth community is going to start to get more questions about "how do I do X?", and many of these are questions that have been answered before or seem "obvious" to those of us who have been up to our ears in

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread John Bradley
The openID foundation is in a position of promoting OAuth 2 now as a significant dependency of openID Connect and other work. I can ask the board if there is a interest in hosting something specific for OAuth 2. I agree with Justin, now that the core spec is done there needs to be some cons

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread Eve Maler
Perhaps relatedly, in the UMA group we've been defining feature tests for interoperability testing, and since UMA uses OAuth, we wondered if any OAuth feature tests exist; we couldn't find any. That might be another activity worthy of being taken up by such a community. (Both UMA and OpenID Conn

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread John Bradley
Not that I know of beyond what we have as part of the openID Connect testing. A good number of those tests cover the underlying OAuth 2 flows. It would not take too much to expand the FEDLAB test harness for more generic OAuth tests if there was a demand. Though without a protocol to apply OA

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread Igor Faynberg
An interesting thought! It is true that interoperability testing is a requirement for an advancement of a Proposed Standard to Draft Standard, so surely OAuth interoperability testing must take place. I I don't recall test suits defined per se in the IETF. Not that it has not happened--it simp

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Implementation Support and Community

2012-08-23 Thread Dick Hardt
+1 to StackOverflow -- that has become the goto source for programming FAQs On Aug 23, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Justin Richer wrote: > With the core specs basically out the door and seeing wider adoption and > publicity, the OAuth community is going to start to get more questions about > "how do I d