[occi-wg] Initial Authentication Mechanism Discovery Wiki Page

[Andy Edmonds]

What still needs to be relayed in core is a) security is important b)
OCCI exposes a general means through the query interface to discover
authentication mechanisms

Andy

On 7 Oct 2010, at 09:42, "alexander.papaspyrou at tu-dortmund.de"
<alexander.papaspyrou at tu-dortmund.de> wrote:

> I'd agree to Gary. core should only state something like "security is an important thing, blah blah" and leave the all the gore (no pun intended) to renderings.
>
> -Alexander
>
> Am 07.10.2010 um 08:52 schrieb Gary Mazz:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks good.
>>
>> There seems to be a reference to openid and oauth. Both of these schemes require the exchange of information in the form of html documents. We currently do not have a mapping of html for authentication or authorization in the occi header scheme. We should limit to http 1.1 supported authentication.
>>
>> gary
>>
>> On 10/5/2010 2:36 PM, Edmonds, AndrewX wrote:
>>> Hey all,
>>> I've added an initial description of how authentication mechanisms can be
>>> discovered. It uses our already defined query interface so is merely but an
>>> extension to this feature of OCCI.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://forge.ogf.org/sf/wiki/do/viewPage/projects.occi-wg/wiki/AuthMechDisco
>>>
>>>
>>> Andy
>>>
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