Re: [OAUTH-WG] Definition of resource owner versus end-user

2010-11-11 Thread Igor Faynberg
Alastair, My (strong) opinion is that the terms "resource owner" and "end user" are not interchangeable. In the interest of extensibility, we should foresee a situation that will involve more than one end users, of which some may not necessarily be resource owners. In fact, I would prefer n

[OAUTH-WG] Definition of resource owner versus end-user

2010-11-11 Thread Alastair Mair
In the current draft spec section 1.2 on terminology the definition of resource owner is "An entity capable of granting access to a protected resource" and end user is "A human resource owner" In section 4.1.2 "Resource owner Password credentials" it talks of supplying the resource owner's user