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OpenID Connect and Account Chooser Deployers’ Meeting at IETF 85

People interested in OpenID Connect, Account Chooser, and how they relate to IETF specifications such as OAuth, JSON Web Token (JWT), and JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) are meeting at IETF #85.  We will meet at 1:00 on Sunday, November 4th, and have the room all afternoon.  An overview of the specifications and status will be provided […]

OpenID Connect Technology Meeting, Oct 22 , 2012

OpenID Connect Technology Meeting will be held on Oct. 22, 2012 at Google, Mountain View. Bluewater Tech Talk Room Google Building 1220 1220 Charleston Road Mountain View, CA Lunch is at 11:30am and the meeting starts at 12:30pm. Non Members are welcome to attend, but must be aware of the OIDF IPR policy. You can find […]

Announcing the OpenID Backplane Protocol Work Group

For website owners, enabling web applications to talk to one another within the same web page can be frustrating and can take countless hours of development. How should apps communicate with each other in a meaningful way? The OpenID Foundation’s new Backplane Protocol Work Group is focused on this exact problem — helping website owners, […]

Some of the OpenID Foundation Summit July 2012 videos available

On July 16, 2012, we had OpenID Connect Interop and OpenID Foundation Summit in conjunction with the Cloud Identity Summit 2012, in Vale, Co. Both session were very well attended. We decided to record some of the session. It was an on-the-fly decision, so not all session were recorded and some had glitches, but I […]

Leveraging OpenID within an IDaaS Model

Good presentation last week at CIS 2012 from Vikas Jain on the scenarios for leveraging OpenID for IDaaS models. There are many emerging applications for using OpenID in this way and Vikas talks about a number of use cases for the Enterprise including: Front-end authN into IDaaS using OpenID SSO to OpenID Protected Apps from […]

Open Source Approach Needed for Advancing Internet Identity

European-based identity and security analyst firm, KuppingerCole, announced last week that OpenID Connect was awarded the 2012 European Identity and Cloud Award in the category for Best Innovation/New Standard. This recognition was largely based on OpenID Connect’s potential to significantly change digital identity using a simple interoperable Internet identity protocol to improve the way we […]

OpenID Connect Wins 2012 European Identity and Cloud Award

Today at the European Identity and Cloud Conference it was announced that OpenID Connect has won the 2012 European Identity and Cloud Award for “Best Innovation / New Standard”.  The OpenID Foundation and the Connect working group members want to thank Kuppinger Cole for this prestigious award and their vote of confidence in the significance […]

OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts Approved

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 […]

OpenID Foundation 2012 Community Board Member Election Results

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 […]

Vote for OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts is open

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. • […]