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6.4. Implicit Grant Unsupported

This document describes binding an access token to the client certificate presented on the TLS connection from the client to the authorization server's token endpoint, however, such binding of access tokens issued directly from the authorization endpoint via the implicit grant flow is explicitly out of scope. End users interact directly with the authorization endpoint using a web browser, and the use of client certificates in user's browsers bring operational and usability issues that make it undesirable to support certificate-bound access tokens issued in the implicit grant flow. Implementations wanting to employ certificate-bound access tokens should utilize grant types that involve the client making an access token request directly to the token endpoint (e.g., the authorization code and refresh token grant types).