A Playbook for US Agencies: Emulating Germany's API Authorization Approach

This is the eighth post in my series on Germany’s federal API authorization blueprint, and it is the one I have been building toward: what would it actually take for US federal and state agencies to emulate this? The good news, and I want to lead with it, is that the US already owns nearly every ingredient. What we lack is not the standards or the tooling — it is the composed, published profile and the governance discipline to hold it.