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