I don’t know the relative merits of Link headers vs .well-known, but there is 
at least one other draft standard I know of that is going down the .well-known 
route for this kind of thing (password changes in this case):

https://github.com/WICG/change-password-url/blob/gh-pages/explainer.md

— Neil

> On 3 May 2019, at 04:41, Evert Pot <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I've been running into a number of situations where it would have been
> beneficial to have a few protocol/media-type agnositic link relation
> types for user authentication purposes.
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pot-authentication-link
> 
> Nothing here is coupled to OAuth, but the link relations could
> potentially be used with OAuth2 servers.
> 
> I don't exactly know the IETF process, but I thought it would be a good
> idea to ask for feedback here. My understanding is that either I should
> find an appropriate WG that's willing to adopt it, or I could do an
> individual submission. I'm not entirely sure yet which would be the most
> appropriate WG to ask, so I thought I'd start here.
> 
> Evert
> 
> 
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