Enterprise Application Architecture with .NET Core

Claims and scopes

Claims represent a single piece of user information, for example, given_name and family_name can be represented as user claims, whereas scopes are the collection of claims that represent a single piece of information.

There are two types of scopes, namely Identity scopes and Resource scopes.

• Identity scopes: Identity scopes represent the claims related to identity.

For example, identity scopes can contain the set of claims that represents user basic information:

• User scopes: It may contain claims such as: given_name, family_name, first_name, middle_name, last_name, birthdate, gender
• Phone scopes: It may contain claims such as: phone_number, phone_number_verified
• Resource scopes: Resource scopes are related to the Web ...