Usage of "public clients" / "deployments traditionally viewed as a public client"

[paulbastian]

          "public clients" ... "to authenticate" is a contradiction. The text further up speaks about "deployments traditionally viewed as a public client", that's a better description. I would even argue either this spec is for confidential clients of a new kind or it is a new type of client. But it is not for public clients.

Originally posted by @tlodderstedt in #74 (comment)

[paulbastian]

What would be the downside of defining a new type of client, e.g. attested client?

[jogu]

It sounds similar to 'credentialed client', a concept that OAuth 2.1 toyed with and ultimately decided didn't help: oauth-wg/oauth-v2-1#107

[babisRoutis]

What would be the downside of defining a new type of client, e.g. attested client?

I am not sure about the spec, yet Attested Client was the term to use in our VCI library.