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#6 OAuth Token Exchange (RFC 8693) — what it is, why it exists

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RFC 8693 — OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange (2020) standardises "trade this token for a different token". It's the protocol that quietly underwrites most modern service-to-service authentication, identity-provider bridging, and on-behalf-of delegation.

This post is the working notebook: what the spec actually says, how the moving parts connect, and where the design decisions matter in production.