[will4274]

> using JSON is a step up from using form params

Why? It seems to me that I'm either writing Json.Serialize(loginParams) or HttpForms.Serialize(loginParams). Both are human readable and weakly typed. From a developer perspective, these seem almost exactly equivalent, just different.

[mooreds]

Ah, in my opinion, it's better to be able to build an object then serialize it, rather than have to jam object semantics into form parameters (and then serialize them).

Here's a grant request from the draft:

   {
       "resources": [
           {
               "type": "photo-api",
               "actions": [
                   "read",
                   "write",
                   "dolphin"
               ],
               "locations": [
                   "https://server.example.net/",
                   "https://resource.local/other"
               ],
               "datatypes": [
                   "metadata",
                   "images"
               ]
           },
           "dolphin-metadata"
       ],
       "client": {
         "display": {
           "name": "My Client Display Name",
           "uri": "https://example.net/client"
         },
         "key": {
           "proof": "jwsd",
           "jwk": {
                       "kty": "RSA",
                       "e": "AQAB",
                       "kid": "xyz-1",
                       "alg": "RS256",
                       "n": "kOB5rR4Jv0GMeL...."
           }
         }
       },
       "interact": {
           "redirect": true,
           "callback": {
               "method": "redirect",
               "uri": "https://client.example.net/return/123455",
               "nonce": "LKLTI25DK82FX4T4QFZC"
           }
       },
       "capabilities": ["ext1", "ext2"],
       "subject": {
           "sub_ids": ["iss-sub", "email"],
           "assertions": ["id_token"]
       }
   }

(Not all of the object keys are required, FYI). The ability to have resources be a rich object (as opposed to a string) and to support multiple resources in one grant request seems to me to be a good thing(tm).