OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
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OAuth Working Group M. Jones
Internet-Draft Microsoft
Intended status: Standards Track N. Sakimura
Expires: February 4, 2017 NRI
J. Bradley
Ping Identity
August 3, 2016
OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata
draft-ietf-oauth-discovery-04
Abstract
This specification defines a metadata format that an OAuth 2.0 client
can use to obtain the information needed to interact with an OAuth
2.0 authorization server, including its endpoint locations and
authorization server capabilities.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Notation and Conventions . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Authorization Server Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Signed Authorization Server Metadata . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Obtaining Authorization Server Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.1. Authorization Server Metadata Request . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Authorization Server Metadata Response . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3. Authorization Server Metadata Validation . . . . . . . . 10
4. String Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. Compatibility Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.1. TLS Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.2. Impersonation Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6.3. Publishing Metadata in a Standard Format . . . . . . . . 12
6.4. Protected Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
7.1. OAuth Authorization Server Metadata Registry . . . . . . 14
7.1.1. Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.1.2. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
7.2. Updated Registration Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
7.3. Well-Known URI Registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
7.3.1. Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix A. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Appendix B. Document History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
1. Introduction
This specification generalizes the metadata format defined by "OpenID
Connect Discovery 1.0" [OpenID.Discovery] in a way that is compatible
with OpenID Connect Discovery, while being applicable to a wider set
of OAuth 2.0 use cases. This is intentionally parallel to the way
that the "OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol" [RFC7591]
specification generalized the dynamic client registration mechanisms
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