<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Sylvain Hellegouarch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sh@defuze.org">sh@defuze.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Peter Saint-Andre a écrit :<br> > Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:<br> >> Peter Saint-Andre a écrit :<br> >>> Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:<br> >>>> Hi all,<br> >>>><br> >>>> Following Peter last blog note [1] and XEP-0235, I'm pleased there is a<br> >>>> formal definition on how to couple OAuth with XMPP but I'm somewhat<br> >>>> disconcerted by the fact that the definition is per XMPP service. Why?<br> >>>> XEP-035 specifies for a few of them (PubSub, MUC and Registration)<br> >>>> but I'm<br> >>>> wondering if that wouldn't have made more sense to define a service<br> >>>> on its<br> >>>> own.<br> >>> Do you mean that an XMPP server could offer a generalized OAuth<br> >>> service for use by things like pubsub components, MUC components, and<br> >>> the XMPP server itself?<br> >><br> >> Yes.<br> ><br> > Could you expand a bit on what you mean by that? I don't think XEP-0235<br> > (which I'm currently updating to reflect our discussions in Portland)<br> > disallows a standalone OAuth service that's used by servers and<br> > components, but that model seems to be a bit more sophisticated and<br> > complex.<br> ><br> > /psa<br> ><br> ><br> <br> </div></div>Right. I can see it would indeed make it more complex and would prevent<br> the solution to be implemented and deployed reasonnably soon.<br> <br> However I didn't mean your XEP was forbidding a standalone service,<br> perhaps a note in that spirit would make it clear that indeed you can<br> write such service.<br> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> - Sylvain<br></div></div></blockquote><div class="Wj3C7c"> <br>Peter and I discussed an iq packet with the oauth namespace being used to establish trust for a JID permanently.  Is that still going to be included as an option?<br> </div></div><br></div>