Archive for February, 2012
Posted at 9:18 am on February 24, 2012 by jfe
In 2011 the OpenID Foundation welcomed Deutsche Telekom as a new member. By joining the Foundation and other industry leaders such as Microsoft, Ping Identity, Google, PayPal, & Symantec, Europe’s largest telecommunications company is supporting decentralized authentication systems for easy online login, such as OpenID. In the development of consumer products, the Deutsche Telekom Group has supported OpenID for some time. Using the OpenID protocol facilitates the integration of centrally developed products into the portfolios of the individual subsidiaries (NatCos). In turn, their customers gain easy and secure access to centrally provided services such as address book and media services.
Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T‑Labs), the innovation and research branch of Deutsche Telekom, played a key role in the Group becoming a member. Axel Nennker, Identity Expert at T-Labs, has recently been reelected to the Board of Directors of the OpenID Foundation. At the upcoming OpenID workshop in London, Ingo Friese from T-Labs will give a presentation on their Cross-Operator Identity Services project.
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Posted at 10:11 pm on February 16, 2012 by Nat Sakimura
The OpenID membership has approved the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts in the vote held from February 7th to 15th, 2012:
• Basic Client Profile – Simple self-contained specification for a web-based Relying Party. (This spec contains a subset of the information in Messages and Standard.)
• Discovery – Defines how user and provider endpoints can be dynamically discovered.
• Dynamic Registration – Defines how clients can dynamically register with OpenID Providers.
• Messages – Defines all the messages that are used in OpenID Connect. (These messages are used by the Standard binding.)
• Standard – Complete HTTP binding of the Messages, for both Relying Parties and OpenID Providers.
• Multiple Response Type Encoding – Registers OAuth 2.0 response_type values used by OpenID Connect.
The voting results were:
- Approve (86 votes)
- Disapprove (1 vote)
- Abstain (2 votes)
Total Votes: 89 (out of 363 members = 25% > 20% quorum requirement)
An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification.
The specifications are posted at these locations:
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-15.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-08.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-03.html
A description of OpenID Connect can be found at http://openid.net/connect/.
The working group page is http://openid.net/wg/connect/.
Tags: Implementer's Draft, openid, OpenID Connect, specification
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Posted at 9:33 am on February 14, 2012 by Nat Sakimura
Thanks to all who voted for the board members who will represent the OpenID community at large for the next two years. Having received the two highest number of votes cast, Greg Keegstra and Axel Nennker have been elected to two years terms. Greg is new to the board and brings a fresh eye to OpenID marketing and outreach. Axel is a returning community board member, bringing his technical expertise in mobile identity research and an informed European perspective to the Foundation. They join current community representatives John Bradley, Mike Jones, Nat Sakimura, and Kick Willemse, serving the second years of their terms. Their leadership, together with sustaining member company representatives; Pam Dingle of Ping Identity, Farhang Kassaei of PayPal, Tony Nadalin of Microsoft, Nico Popp of Symantec, and Eric Sachs of Google was important to the success of last years OpenID Connect Summits. This is a good time to thank Brian Kissel, Chris Messina, and Allen Tom for their service to the Foundation and the OpenID community. Brian’s leadership as Chairman of the Board was crucial to managing the Foundation’s transition from its community roots to where we are today. Chris Messina’s marketing sense and Allen Tom’s technical chops went a long way towards maintaining OIDF’s user centric perspective and industry influence.
Last year, Dave Recordon and I often talked about how the OpenID Foundation should evolve. My view was that OpenID does indeed have a “second act” and that the Foundation’s leadership of open identity standards development is important in a rapidly changing internet identity ecosystem. The sponsorship and attendance at the OpenID Summits, the hard work of the OpenID Connect WG and the promise of “Account Chooser” all indicate there is much to do and look forward to in 2012. It will be a pivotal year for OpenID and digital identity.
The new board’s first meeting on March 1 will consider long term operational and strategic issues. Feel free to make your thoughts known on this list, by contacting community representatives or me.
106 members voted in this election, casting a total of 151 votes. The results (in order of votes received) were:
- Greg Keegstra 66
- Axel Nennker 33
- George Fletcher 28
- Sébastien Brault 12
- Patrice Vuillard 6
- Yosef Vuillard 6
- David Marceau 0
Don Thibeau
Executive Director
The OpenID Foundation
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Posted at 9:25 pm on February 7, 2012 by Nat Sakimura
Link: https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/62
The OpenID AB+Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts:
• Basic Client Profile – Simple self-contained specification for a web-based Relying Party. (This spec contains a subset of the information in Messages and Standard.)
• Discovery – Defines how user and provider endpoints can be dynamically discovered.
• Dynamic Registration – Defines how clients can dynamically register with OpenID Providers.
• Messages – Defines all the messages that are used in OpenID Connect. (These messages are used by the Standard binding.)
• Standard – Complete HTTP binding of the Messages, for both Relying Parties and OpenID Providers.
• Multiple Response Type Encoding – Registers OAuth 2.0 response_type values used by OpenID Connect.
An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification.
The specifications are posted at these locations:
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-15.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-08.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-07.html
• http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-03.html
A description of OpenID Connect can be found at http://openid.net/connect/. The working group page ishttp://openid.net/wg/connect/.
Please vote at: https://openid.net/foundation/members/polls/62
The vote is open between Feb. 7 to 15.
Tags: Implementer's Draft, OpenID Connect, vote
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