Can I just say, I really hate this is a problem, and I love the idea of
trying to standardize something here. Because, as a user of many different
services, where I have in the past given out access to, it's near
impossible to know where and how to revoke access to some of those things.

One question I have here is, how do you envision connecting from the
publishing of the *authorization_management_uri*, to it actually being used
practically?

On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 9:11 PM Emelia S. <emelia=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've recently encountered an issue with OAuth for decentralized social web
> applications (e.g., those built on AT Protocol),
> where the user may not be directly familiar with their Authorization
> Servers' UI because they normally use apps to access
> their accounts.
>
> For instance, many Bluesky users don't know how to access their
> Authorization Server's management UI for managing
> which clients have access to their account, as documented in
> https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/9403
>
> This has lead many users on Bluesky to think that App Passwords
> (effectively additional passwords for their account)
> are more secure than OAuth, because the Bluesky client application cannot
> provide a management UI for OAuth clients,
> since it is not the authorization server. The authorization server is
> instead bsky.social <http://bsky.social/> when people use bsky.app as the
> client.
>
> I noticed that in the Authorization Server Metadata (RFC8414) there wasn't
> particularly a relevant property besides maybe
> homepage_uri (from OpenID Federation) through which to expose the
> management UI.
>
> So I'd like to propose a `authorization_management_uri` property, and have
> submitted an internet draft to enable discovery
> of the management UI:
> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-emelia-oauth-authorization-management-uri-00.html
>
> n.b., I know there's a typo in the security considerations section, I
> caught it after publishing -00 and didn't want to publish a
> new version just for changing one word.
>
> Yours,
> Emelia Smith
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