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by antrix 5072 days ago
> but in reality not everyone is happy to use Google of various reasons.

I don't think he is saying 'just use Google'. He is saying that Google's wide-spread adoption of OAuth 2.0 is existence proof that the technology itself works.

> plenty of people and organizations have to implement OAuth 2.0 server-side and wade through messy specification where half of it may be irrelevant

Hence this bit: "It’s done. Stick a fork in it. Ship the RFCs." It is entirely possible that the 'working' bits of the spec will be distilled out as RFCs which should make implementation easier.