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Justin Richer is a security architect, software engineer, standards editor, and service designer with over fifteen years of industry experience. He is the lead author of OAuth2 In Action from Manning Publications and contributor to OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect. Justin was the editor of the OAuth specifications RFC 7591, 7592, and 7662, and he wrote the pioneering Vectors of Trust. Justin is a co-author of the current version of NIST Special Publication 800-63, with a focus on the federation and assertion requirements. He’s the editor of the HEART specifications as well as contributing editor to UMA 2.0. He is the founder and maintainer of the MITREid Connect open source project through the MIT Internet Trust Consortium and actively contributes to open source implementations. An ardent proponent of open standards and open source, he believes in solving hard problems with the right solution, even if that solution still needs to be invented.