Public Review Period for Proposed OpenID Federation 1.0 Final Specification

Published December 4, 2025

The OpenID Connect Working Group recommends approval of the following specification as an OpenID Final Specification:


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 the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures. Unless issues are identified during the review that the working group believes must be addressed by revising the draft, this review period will be followed by a fourteen-day voting period during which OpenID Foundation members will vote on whether to approve this draft as an OpenID Final Specification.

The relevant dates are:

  • Final Specification public review period: Thursday, December 4, 2025 to Monday, February 2, 2026 (60 days)
  • Final Specification vote announcement: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 (14 days prior to voting)
  • Final Specification voting period: Tuesday, February 3, 2026 to Tuesday, February 17, 2026 (14 days)


The OpenID Connect working group page is https://openid.net/wg/connect/. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at https://openid.net/foundation/members/registration. If you’re not a current OpenID Foundation member, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote.

You can send feedback on the specification in a way that enables the working group to act upon it by (1) signing the contribution agreement at https://openid.net/intellectual-property/ to join the working group (please specify that you are joining the “AB/Connect” working group on your contribution agreement), (2) joining the working group mailing list at https://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-ab, and (3) sending your feedback to the list.


Marie Jordan – OpenID Foundation Board Secretary

On January 20, 2026 OpenID Federation 1.0 draft -47 was published. It incorporates feedback received during the review period including:

  • Acknowledged Pål Axelsson.
  • Added description of how to enable the use of the crit (critical) Claim within the definition of a kind of JWT.
  • Made section and figure titles more consistent.
  • Reordered some text to group protocol-independent text together and protocol-specific text together.
  • Applied suggestions from Nat Sakimura improving the descriptions of the "constraints" and "delegation" claims.
  • Fixed #317: Corrected Trust Chain example.
  • Applied clarifications identified while splitting the 1.1 specs.
  • Fixed Trust Mark Delegation validation to handle optional exp Claim.
  • Fixed #327: Use separate examples for Intermediate and OP Entity Configurations.
  • Changed some "iss" and "exp" dates in examples so they make better sense.
  • Changed "kid" values in examples to be plausible JWK Thumbprint values for their keys.
  • Added informative references to OpenID Federation 1.1 and OpenID Federation for OpenID Connect 1.1 specifications.

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