Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fkooman 3888 days ago
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.8

```

   OAuth 2.0 provides a rich authorization framework with well-defined
   security properties.  However, as a rich and highly extensible
   framework with many optional components, on its own, this
   specification is likely to produce a wide range of non-interoperable
   implementations.

   In addition, this specification leaves a few required components
   partially or fully undefined (e.g., client registration,
   authorization server capabilities, endpoint discovery).  Without
   these components, clients must be manually and specifically
   configured against a specific authorization server and resource
   server in order to interoperate.

   This framework was designed with the clear expectation that future
   work will define prescriptive profiles and extensions necessary to
   achieve full web-scale interoperability.
```

So what are we waiting for? I don't think OpenID Connect is the answer here, maybe something more in the direction of IndieAuth (https://indieauth.com/).