OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
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OAuth Working Group J. Richer, Ed.
Internet-Draft The MITRE Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track J. Bradley
Expires: September 19, 2013 Ping Identity
M.B. Jones
Microsoft
M. Machulak
Newcastle University
March 18, 2013
OAuth 2.0 Dynamic Client Registration Protocol
draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-08
Abstract
This specification defines an endpoint and protocol for dynamic
registration of OAuth 2.0 Clients at an Authorization Server and
methods for the dynamically registered client to manage its
registration.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Client Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.1. Relationship Between Grant Types and Response Types . . . 7
3. Client Registration Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Client Registration Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.2. Client Registration Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4. Client Configuration Endpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1. Forming the Client Configuration Endpoint URL . . . . . . 10
4.2. Client Read Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Client Update Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.4. Client Delete Request . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
5. Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.1. Client Information Response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
5.2. Client Registration Error Response . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Appendix B. Document History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
1. Introduction
In some use-case scenarios, it is desirable or necessary to allow
OAuth 2.0 clients to obtain authorization from an OAuth 2.0
authorization server without requiring the two parties to interact
beforehand. Nevertheless, in order for the authorization server to
accurately and securely represent to end-users which client is
seeking authorization to access the end-user's resources, a method
for automatic and unique registration of clients is needed. The
OAuth 2.0 authorization framework does not define how the
relationship between the Client and the Authorization Server is
initialized, or how a given client is assigned a unique Client
Identifier. Historically, this has happened out-of-band from the
OAuth 2.0 protocol. This draft provides a mechanism for a client to
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