API Onboarding Without a Ticket: Dynamic Registration and Software Statements

This is the third post in my series on Germany’s federal API authorization blueprint. I have spent a lot of the last year poking at how API providers handle onboarding — the walk from “I have a developer who wants to integrate” to “that developer’s software is holding a working credential” — and I have watched provider after provider get it wrong by hiding a real onboarding API behind a dashboard you still have to click through by hand. So when I got to the onboarding decisions in Germany’s architecture, I paid close attention, because this is the layer that decides whether you have an ecosyst