[OpenID board] Why Connect?

Allen Tom atom at yahoo-inc.com
Wed May 26 00:47:53 UTC 2010


Hi Nat,

I think the biggest difference with the Artifact Binding spec and the
Connect proposal is that AB defines a new artifact flow that is not
currently defined in OAuth2.

In contrast, the Connect proposal uses the OAuth2 flows, and just defines
additional data to be returned for the "openid" scope.

OAuth2 implementers will probably find it easier to implement Connect (since
it's a small addition to OAuth2) rather than the AB.

Connect also standardizes on the default AX schema, which is nice to have.

But yeah, AB and Connect are about 90% the same.

Allen




On 5/25/10 5:19 AM, "Nat Sakimura" <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> If that would be the course, I will give a full support to the connect,
> though I might still want to ask "why duplicate with Artifact Binding?" ;-)
> It simply looks like a too much overlap.



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