OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-02
Network Working Group J. Richer, Ed.
Internet-Draft The MITRE Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track J. Bradley
Expires: May 31, 2013 Ping Identity
M. Jones
Microsoft
M. Machulak
Newcastle University
November 27, 2012
OAuth Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-02
Abstract
This specification defines an endpoint and protocol for dynamic
registration of OAuth Clients at an Authorizaiton Server.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.3. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.1. The client needs to be uniquely identifiable by
the authorization server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.2. The authorization server must collect metadata
about a client for later user interaction . . . . . . 4
1.3.3. The authorization server should have the option of
strongly authenticating the client and its metadata . 4
1.3.4. Dynamic client registration must be possible from
both web-server applications and applications with
other capabilities and limitations, such as native
applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3.5. Transaction integrity must be ensured . . . . . . . . 5
2. Client Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Client Registration Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Client Registration Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2. Client Registration Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3. Client Update Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4. Client Update Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.5. Rotate Secret Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.6. Rotate Secret Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.7. Client Registration Error Response . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Document History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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1. Introduction
In some use-case scenarios, it is desirable or necessary to allow
OAuth clients to obtain authorization from an OAuth authorization
server without the two parties having previously interacted.
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