[Openid-specs-ab] Refresh token lifetime?

Joseph Heenan joseph at authlete.com
Tue Aug 27 12:37:33 UTC 2019


Hi Mischa

There are [at least] 3 different solutions in the wild, all mentioned in https://bitbucket.org/openid/fapi/issues/251/refresh-token-expiry-time 

Joseph


> On 27 Aug 2019, at 13:22, Mischa Salle via Openid-specs-ab <openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I was wondering if there is any standard (RFC or OpenID) for conveying
> the lifetime or expiry time of a refresh token?
> The access token response returns an expires_in for the
> access token, following https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.2.2
> but there seems to be no standard for returning an expiry time or
> lifetime for the refresh token.
> It would certainly be useful information for a client.
> 
> In case there is no standard yet, what would be the right thing to do?
> I would suggest adding another access token response parameter, such as
> rt_expires_in. Alternatively, it could be the expiry time, e.g.
> refresh_token_exp or something like that.
> 
> Are there already parties doing something like this?
> 
> Mischa
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