We just published a new Internet Draft (ID). It is about hyperlinked oauth, which we talked about at IETF 85. There was a comment that "_links" can represent not only hyperlinks but also metadata in general, so the title is something like "JSON Metadata for OAuth 2.0 Responses". It is a short document of only 9 pages. This will be discussed on the OAuth WG mailing list.
In this -00 version, mainlyWhat I've blogged about in the pastDefining additional relationships, such as public keys, is a topic for future work.
Well, enjoy!
A new version of ID, draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-00.txt
has been successfully submitted by Nat Sakimura and posted to the
IETF repository.
Filename: draft-sakimura-oauth-meta
Revision: 00
Title: JSON Metadata for OAuth Responses
Creation date: 2012-12-12
WG ID: Individual Submission
Number of pages: 9
URL: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-00.txt
Status: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta
Htmlized: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-00
Abstract:
This specification defines an extensible metadata member that may be
inserted into the OAuth 2.0 responses to assist the clients to
process those responses. It is expressed as a member called “_links”
that is inserted as the top level member in the responses.
allow the client to learn where the members in the response could be
used and how, etc. Since it is just a member, any client that does
not understand this extension should not break and work normally
while supporting clients can utilize the metadata to its advantage.