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Clarify what 'UIA APIs' mean in this proposal
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sandhose committed Mar 5, 2025
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This proposal introduces a new set of authentication APIs for Matrix, based on OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect (OIDC) specifications.

As a first step, it introduces those APIs as alternatives to the existing User-Interactive Authentication (UIA) APIs, acknowledging the complexity of covering all the use cases of the existing APIs.
As a first step, it introduces those APIs as alternatives to the existing User-Interactive Authentication (UIA) APIs, both the ones used in authentication and UIA-protected APIs related to account management, acknowledging the complexity of covering all the use cases of the existing APIs.
The long-term goal is to deprecate the existing UIA APIs and replace them with the new OAuth 2.0/OIDC-based APIs.
This deprecation is not done in this MSC.

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