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I-D.draft-ietf-oauth-security-topics:

informative:
RFC7591:


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authorization server, the client needs to establish a unique
identifier, and needs to to provide the server with metadata about
the application, such as the application name and icon. In cases
where an application is interacting with authorization servers that
the developer of the application has no relationship with, manual
registration is impossible.
where a client is interacting with authorization servers that it has
no relationship with, manual registration is impossible.

While Dynamic Client Registration {{RFC7591}} can provide a method for a previously
unknown client to establish itself at an authorization server and
obtain a client idenfier, this is not always practical in some deployments
and can create additional challenges around management of the registration
data and cleanup of inactive clients.

This specification describes how an OAuth 2.0 client can publish its
own registration information and avoid the need for pre-registering
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