{"id":111,"date":"2012-07-30T01:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T01:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2012-08-06T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T18:21:07","slug":"eran-bails-out-of-the-oauth2-0-spec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/eran-bails-out-of-the-oauth2-0-spec\/","title":{"rendered":"Eran bails out of the OAuth2.0 Spec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the news this week was that <a href=\"http:\/\/hueniverse.com\/2012\/07\/oauth-2-0-and-the-road-to-hell\/\">Eran has decided that OAuth2.0 is a bad specification<\/a> and wants nothing to do with it. \u00a0Its kinda a bit too late to complain about OAuth2.0. \u00a0Its out there, its being used as the basis for many other protocols, such as OpenID-Connect and UMA. Its going to stay around for a while, and perhaps even evolve further. Its a workable solution for this current generation of web applications APIs.<\/p>\n<p>John Bradley got it right: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thread-safe.com\/2012\/07\/the-oauth-2-sky-is-not-falling.html\" target=\"_blank\">OAuth2.0 sky is not falling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PS. \u00a0I don&#8217;t know why people are so upset about the IETF process (see comments by Eran &amp; responses by other folks). \u00a0How many people in the OAuth WG were around for the creation of IPsec protocol? What about the IKE protocol (starting from Hilary Orman&#8217;s ISAKMP draft). \u00a0All in all it took 5 years at least. Not to mention the PKIX WG (still around after 15 years). This *is* the IETF process. Love it or leave it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the news this week was that Eran has decided that OAuth2.0 is a bad specification and wants nothing to do with it. \u00a0Its kinda a bit too late to complain about OAuth2.0. \u00a0Its out there, its being used as the basis for many other protocols, such as OpenID-Connect and UMA. Its going to stay <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/eran-bails-out-of-the-oauth2-0-spec\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oauth2-0"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hk6w-1N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.findthomas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}