I suspect that's up to the RFC editor. There are no normative uses of these specifications because Bearer uses the HTTPbis specifications. -- Mike -----Original Message----- From: oauth-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:oauth-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Franklin Tse Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:07 PM To: oauth@xxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx; iesg@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification Draft -16 Hello, Just noticed that RFC2616 and RFC2617 are put under Informative References but are only referenced in Document History. Will they be removed before publication as an RFC? Regards, Franklin -------------------------------------------------- From: "Mike Jones" <Michael.Jones@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tuesday, 31 January, 2012 03:42 To: <oauth@xxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; <iesg@xxxxxxxx> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification Draft -16 > Draft 16 of the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Specification<http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer> has been published. This version contains a proposed resolution to the auth-param syntax issue that has been reviewed by Julian Reschke, Mark Nottingham, and the OAuth WG chairs. It also addresses the Gen-ART review comments by Alexey Melnikov. > > It contains the following changes: > > * Use the HTTPbis auth-param syntax for Bearer challenge attributes. > * Dropped the sentence "The realm value is intended for programmatic use and is not meant to be displayed to end users". > * Reordered form-encoded body parameter description bullets for better readability. > * Added [USASCII] reference. > > The draft is available at: > > * http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-16 > A HTML-formatted version is available at: > > * http://self-issued.info/docs/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-bearer-16.html > > -- Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > OAuth mailing list > OAuth@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth > _______________________________________________ OAuth mailing list OAuth@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf