Using upstream_get was not always consistent. The idea is that you can walk upward in an instance hierarchy one step at the time not skipping some instances in the chain. This was remedied.
In the OpenID Federation case a client entity must be able to return metadata about itself irrespective of whether it has done any registration or checked the metadata of the server it wants to talk to.
Using upstream_get was not always consistent. The idea is that you can walk upward in an instance hierarchy one step at the time not skipping some instances in the chain. This was remedied. In the OpenID Federation case a client entity must be able to return metadata about itself irrespective of whether it has done any registration or checked the metadata of the server it wants to talk to.