# Independent Consultant

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/justin-richer/
Last updated: 2026-08-29
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## Bio

Justin Richer is one of the most active OAuth working group contributors. He led the design of GNAP, the IETF effort to design a next-generation authorization protocol intended to address structural limits of OAuth 2.0. Co-author of the standard-reference book on OAuth.

Profile built from public IETF records and published works.

## Where their work shows up

Richer's GNAP work is the most serious attempt to redesign authorization beyond the structural limits of [OAuth 2.0](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/oauth-2-0/), particularly around delegation across more than two parties. That problem is now urgent for [agentic identity](https://startwithidentity.com/glossary/agentic-identity/), where an agent acts for a user across several systems and the audit question becomes a chain rather than a call.