Latest Blogs
Blogs about the OpenID Foundation and the Identity industry
OpenID Foundation seeks Technical Director
The OpenID Foundation is hiring a Technical Director to join its leadership team, reporting to Executive Director Gail Hodges. The role leads the OpenID Foundation’s relationships with priority partners and ecosystems, represents the Foundation at industry and government events, and provides strategic leadership for the Conformance Program. Full-time
OIDF’s key recommendations to Australia’s Digital ID Act review
The OpenID Foundation’s Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG) has submitted formal recommendations to Australia’s statutory review of the Digital ID Act 2024. The submission outlines how Australia’s digital trust infrastructure can be designed so that it emphasises interoperability, ecosystem wide participation, and practical adoption at scale. The ADT
OIDF responds to ARNECC’s consultation on the Model Participation Rules
The OpenID Foundation’s Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG) has submitted comments to the Australian Registrars’ National Electronic Conveyancing Council (ARNECC) on Consultation Draft 8.01 of the Model Participation Rules (MPR). The MPR governs how lawyers, conveyancers and financial institutions participate in Australia’s electronic conveyancing system, including how they
OIDF responds to Australia’s digital trust consultation
The OpenID Foundation, through its Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG), has responded to the Australian Government’s Department of Finance consultation on verifiable credentials policy. The Australian Government’s work on verifiable credentials (VCs) is a significant development in the ongoing evolution of the Australian Government Digital ID System (AGDIS),
OpenID Well-Known Conference 2027 – Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals The OpenID Foundation is inviting proposals for its inaugural OpenID Well-Known Conference, bringing together an intimate, expert community of decision-makers, ecosystem leaders and technologists from established and emerging ecosystems around the world. Our focus is clear: how can we use standards and technology to advance, scale and
Getting Cozy with COAZ: Securing APIs and AI Agents with Standardized Authorization
By Atul Tulshibagwale and Alex Olivier, co-chairs of the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN Working Group The views expressed in this post are those of the authors, in their capacity as co-chairs of the AuthZEN Working Group, and do not necessarily represent the position of the OpenID Foundation as a whole. AuthZEN
How we got here: what six decades of identity history tell us about the agent age
By Sar Haidar, Platform Engineer at MIT Open Learning Every identity standard we work with today was built to solve a problem someone was staring at right then. OAuth, OIDC, SAML, the token flows we spend our careers refining: each one began as an urgent answer to an immediate question.
Call for Participation: Demonstrate MCP-based AI agent security with open identity standards
Prove that MCP clients, gateways, and servers from different vendors can secure AI agents together — within and across enterprises. The OpenID Foundation’s Artificial Intelligence Identity Management Community Group (AIIM CG) is running an interoperability event to show that Model Context Protocol (MCP) flows can be secured with open identity
AuthZEN at Identiverse 2026: authorization in the agent era
By Alex Olivier Authorization, and specifically authorization for AI agents, emerged as the defining challenge of the year. That shift was visible at Identiverse 2026. One marker of how far the work has come is that the AuthZEN sessions ran as a full masterclass and a main-program talk rather than
As AltID launches, Danish media seek OIDF view
Denmark’s launch of AltID, a government-backed digital wallet, prompted questions about what the new technology means for citizens and how it differs from existing digital identity systems. Major Danish national media outlets, including DR, reported on the new technology. Several leading publications, including Ekstra Bladet, Input Magazine, Mere Mobil and
OIDF proud to support BIS Innovation Hub’s Aperta Report
The BIS Innovation Hub has published its Project Aperta report, a significant milestone for cross-border open finance and a meaningful validation of the open standards approach that the OpenID Foundation has long championed. Project Aperta has been designing, developing, and testing a prototype for cross-border open finance interconnectivity through APIs
Announcing the new Digital Credentials Harmonized Presentation Working Group
The OpenID Foundation has launched a new working group – the Digital Credentials Harmonized Presentation Working Group (DCHP WG). The new DCHP WG supports a joint initiative between experts of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 17 (ISO) WG10 and WG4 and the OpenID Foundation’s Digital Credentials Protocols Working Group (DCP WG) to harmonize
OpenID Foundation advances authorization for the agent era with new AuthZEN Working Group Drafts
As the identity community gathers at Identiverse 2026, authorization is emerging as one of the defining challenges of the agent era. The OpenID Foundation is pleased to share a significant step forward. The AuthZEN Working Group has approved the AuthZEN Access Request and Approval Profile (AARP) and AuthZEN Profile for
OIDF conformance tests deliver results in La Ciotat
The OpenID Foundation joined participants from across the industry at the 13th ISO mDL interoperability test event in La Ciotat, France last week, taking its conformance test suite to one of the most significant gatherings of digital identity implementers in the international standards calendar. The two-day event, held 28–29 May,
Four OpenID Foundation voices at ID4Africa 2026 in Abidjan
The OpenID Foundation was proud to join the recent ID4Africa 2026 Annual General Meeting in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. ID4Africa is the only pan-African movement dedicated to helping African nations build robust and responsible identity ecosystems, bringing together 48 member governments, international development agencies, and the private sector. This year’s theme,
CrowdStrike joins the OIDF as a Sustaining Corporate Member
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to welcome CrowdStrike as a new Sustaining Corporate Member. CrowdStrike is a global cybersecurity leader whose CrowdStrike Falcon® platform delivers real-time threat detection, endpoint protection, and high-fidelity security intelligence across modern enterprise environments. CrowdStrike brings with it significant expertise in real-time threat detection and security
OpenID AuthZEN wins EIC 2026 Outstanding Project Recognition
The OpenID Foundation congratulates the OpenID AuthZEN Working Group on winning the Outstanding Project Recognition award at the recent European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) 2026 in Berlin. The award was presented by KuppingerCole, one of the most respected analyst and research firms in the identity and access management space,
Insights from the OIDF’s Australia Innovation Day
When does digital ID actually serve the common good? Written by Olaf Grewe, Head of Product, Sign-up and Log-in at National Australia Bank, and Co-Chair of the ADT CG This was the question explored at an Innovation Day organised by the OpenID Foundation’s Australian Digital Trust Community Group (ADT CG)
OIDF presents at ITU-T workshop on digital ID and agentic AI
The OpenID Foundation recently participated in the ITU-T’s most recent workshop on Trustable and Interoperable Digital Identities for Human and Agentic AI in Geneva – the first of three planned ITU-T workshops on this theme. The workshop brought together speakers from governments, standards bodies, and industry across two days, with
Calling all members – register for the GDC Conference now
The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce that it is a co-organizer of the Global Digital Collaboration (GDC) Conference, taking place this September 1-3 in Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland. The GDC is not a typical industry conference. It has been brought together by a coalition of standards development organizations, intergovernmental bodies,