I'm a new face, but did want to say congratulations to all.  It's great to see 
this movement into the OAuth 2.0 umbrella.


-- 
David Blevins
http://twitter.com/dblevins
http://www.tomitribe.com

> On Jun 28, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Mike Jones 
> <Michael.Jones=40microsoft....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server Metadata specification is now RFC 8414 
> <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8414.txt>.  The abstract describes the 
> specification as:
>  
> 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.
>  
> The specification defines a JSON metadata representation for OAuth 2.0 
> authorization servers that is compatible with OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 
> <http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0.html>.  This 
> specification is a true instance of standardizing existing practice.  OAuth 
> 2.0 deployments have been using the OpenID Connect metadata format to 
> describe their endpoints and capabilities for years.  This RFC makes this 
> existing practice a standard.
>  
> Having a standard OAuth metadata format makes it easier for OAuth clients to 
> configure connections to OAuth authorization servers.  See 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/oauth-parameters/oauth-parameters.xhtml#authorization-server-metadata
>  
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/oauth-parameters/oauth-parameters.xhtml#authorization-server-metadata>
>  for the initial set of registered metadata values.
>  
> Thanks to all of you who helped make this standard a reality!
>  
>                                                        -- Mike
>  
> P.S.  This announcement was also posted at http://self-issued.info/?p=1883 
> <http://self-issued.info/?p=1883> and as @selfissued 
> <https://twitter.com/selfissued>.
>  
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