Public Review Period for Proposed OpenID Connect Ephemeral Subject Identifier 1.0 Final Specification
The OpenID Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specification as an OpenID Final Specification: OpenID Connect Ephemeral Subject Identifier 1.0 A Final Specification provides intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification and is not subject to further revision. This note starts the 60-day public review period for the specification draft in accordance with […]
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. That was the premise of […]
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 standards. Taking place at the […]
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 the side birds-of-a-feather slots such […]
Public Review Period for Proposed Implementer’s Draft of OpenID Connect Key Binding
The OpenID Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specification as an OpenID Implementer’s Draft: OpenID Connect Key Binding 1.0 This would be the first Implementer’s Draft of this specification. An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. This note starts the 45-day public review […]
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 IT Kanalen, sought expert comment […]
Errata to OpenID Identity Assurance Specifications Approved
Errata to the following specifications have been approved by a vote of the OpenID Foundation members: First Errata Set for OpenID Connect for Identity Assurance 1.0: This extension to OpenID Connect standardizes how relying parties request and receive identity information with additional assurance metadata. First Errata Set for OpenID Identity Assurance Schema Definition 1.0: This specification […]
Public Review Period for Proposed Implementer’s Drafts of Two OpenID Federation Extensions
The OpenID Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specifications as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts: OpenID Federation Subordinate Events Endpoint 1.0 OpenID Federation Extended Subordinate Listing 1.0 These would be the first Implementer’s Draft of these specifications. An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. This […]
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 – connecting the open finance […]
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 their credential presentation protocols. Today, […]