Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Clarifying the scope of the OAuth 2.1 spec (Mike Jones)

From: Lee McGovern <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:45:50 +0000

The statement "removing features that are not currently considered to be best practices" is ambiguous and implies that the best practise could be reinterpreted to include the flows that are now being deprecated. Perhaps "removing features that are no longer considered to be best practices" is much clearer

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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 21:34:56 +0000
From: Mike Jones <[email-masked]>
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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Clarifying the scope of the OAuth 2.1 spec
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The abstract of draft-parecki-oauth-v2-1 concludes with this text:
   This specification replaces and obsoletes the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework described in RFC 6749<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749>.

While accurate, I don't believe that this text captures the full intent of the OAuth 2.1 effort - specifically, to be a recommended subset of OAuth 2.0, rather than to introduce incompatible changes to it.  Therefore, I request that these sentences be added to the abstract, to eliminate confusion in the marketplace that might otherwise arise:

    OAuth 2.1 is a compatible subset of OAuth 2.0, removing features that are not currently considered to be best practices.  By design, it does not introduce any new features to what already exists in the OAuth 2.0 set of protocols.

                                                       Thanks,
                                                       -- Mike

P.S.  I assert that any incompatible changes should be proposed as part of the TxAuth effort and not as part of OAuth 2.1.

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