Provider Discovery

Assume a person employs one or more providers (e.g. authentication provider, wallet provider, age verification provider, etc.) as part of their interactions with mobile apps or web servers (servers) using a client (web browser or mobile OS). Provider Discovery is a specification that defines how the server can learn of the existence of these providers, and in some cases, characteristics of the provider. Read the About for the basic spec and check out the blog posts.

Recent Posts

• Partial solutions

  Posted on:September 4, 2023 |  at 12:00 AM

  We discuss the age-old partial solution, the HTTP request header.

• Applications

  Posted on:August 4, 2023 |  at 12:00 AM

  We describe a few use cases where Provider Discovery could be used

• Motivation

  Posted on:August 3, 2023 |  at 12:00 AM

  Two questions arise for apps/sites when individuals are free to choose their own Authorization, age verification, and other kinds of providers. Provider Discovery tries to answer them.