Scopes and permissions with RBAC for Machine-to-machine authentication

Hi @tommyr,

I apologize for the delay.

Permissions and RBAC are user-centric. This is explained better here:

http://community.auth0.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-scopes-and-permissions/32380

This would explain the difference in how they are treated in a SPA where a user is requesting an access token and a M2M app where there is no user.

Hope this helps in some way!
Dan