I also never really understood why XRD was re-used.
Btw, XRD is not used by any of the current OAuth WG documents, see
http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/
On Jun 22, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote:
* XRD -- XRD is an OASIS spec that's used by OpenID and OAuth. Maybe I'm just
scarred by WS-*, but it seems very over-engineered for what it does. I
understand that the communities had reasons for using it to leverage an
existing user base for their specific user cases, but I don't see any reason
to generalise such a beast into a generic mechanism.
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