Eran, the editor of a specification in the OAuth working group, had decided to
step down from his editor-role because the group did not agree with certain
design decisions (particularly with a security design decision). That happens
also in other groups. Nothing uncommon so far.
He then wrote a blog post about his decision and made various claims about lack
of interoperability, etc.
This blog post got picked up by the media and various people (who have in many
cases not been involved in the IETF OAuth group) turned it into bashing the
IETF overall.
On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:18 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
Watching a play starting with the third act is always interesting but not
informative.
If there's a dispute worthy of attention by the *whole IETF membership*,
could someone please summarize it (in a reasonably unbiased way) to bring the
rest of us up to speed?
Dale