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Relax client credentials grant requirement to SHOULD #253

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Relax client credentials grant requirement
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Make client credentials discovery requirement conditional
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Expand Up @@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ Discovery 1.0 [[!OIDC-DISCOVERY]] resource by including `webid` in its `scopes_s
NOTE: This sections borrows concepts from OAuth 2.0 [[!RFC6749]], while the rest of Solid-OIDC builds on top of OpenID
Connect Core 1.0 [[!OIDC-CORE]]. The section is likely to be extracted into a separate specification in the future.

Authorization Servers MUST support the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant [[!RFC6749]] (Section 4.4) to enable
Authorization Servers SHOULD support the OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant [[!RFC6749]] (Section 4.4) to enable
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non-interactive authentication for scripts, automated agents, and server-to-server communication.

NOTE: Scripts and bots can also use Solid-OIDC without Client Credentials via the [refresh token
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