OpenID Foundation Workshop at Microsoft – Monday, April 17, 2023
OpenID Foundation Workshops provide technical insight and influence on current digital identity standards while offering a collaborative platform to openly address current trends and market opportunities. This OpenID Foundation Workshop includes a number of presentations focused on 2023 Foundation key initiatives as well as updates on active working groups.
General Availability of Microsoft OpenID Connect Identity Provider
Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Azure Active Directory OpenID Connect Identity Provider. It supports the discovery of provider information as well as session management (logout). On this occasion, the OpenID Foundation wants to recognize Microsoft for its contributions to the development of the OpenID Connect specifications and congratulate them on the general availability of their […]
Microsoft publicly participates in OpenID Connect interoperability testing. | Thread Safe
While the testing of Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) support for OpenID Connect has been going on for some months, Microsoft is now publicly participating in the OSIS interoperability testing. While most people think of Connect as being adopted by Social sites like Google for Login, it is also gaining traction in enterprise […]
Microsoft and Google announce OpenID support
This is a historic week for OpenID. Google and Microsoft announced the release of code to support OpenID 2.0 across their most important properties. On Monday, Microsoft, announced OpenID 2.0 support for their 460 million users on the LiveID platform. On Wednesday Google said it will be supporting OpenID 2.0 for any user that has […]
Microsoft and Google Both Ship OpenID
As a great way to lead into the Internet Identity Workshop this week in Mountain View CA, both Microsoft and Google shipped OpenID features in beta products this past Friday. Microsoft Research announced an experimental Provider while Google announced the ability to comment on Blogger blogs using OpenID. As some backstory, this past February at […]
2023 OpenID Foundation Kim Cameron Award Recipients Share Their Experiences
In April 2023, the OpenID Foundation announced the 2023 Kim Cameron Award recipients. Today we’re pleased for the award recipients to share their experiences. The goal of the awards is to increase representation from young people’s who’ve demonstrated an interest in subjects consistent with best practices and identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy […]
AuthZEN – Charter
AuthZEN Working Group – Charter AuthZEN will focus on specific areas of interoperability by documenting common authorization patterns, define standard mechanisms, protocols and formats for communication between authorization components, and recommend best practices for developing secure applications. AuthZEN Working GroupOVERVIEW AuthZEN Working GroupCHARTER AuthZEN Working GroupSPECIFICATIONS AuthZEN Working GroupREPOSITORY AuthZEN Working Group Charter 1) Working […]
OpenID Foundation Chairman Nat Sakimura Speaks on OECD “Recommendations on the Governance of Digital Identity” Panel
This blog was updated on September 28, 2023 to include an updated link that includes the session recordings. OECD hosted a launch event on September 26, 2023 on the Recommendation on the Governance of Digital Identity, (note the session recordings at the bottom of the page) as adopted by the OECD Council in June 2023. […]
Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) Working Group – Charter
Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) Working Group – Charter The goal of the Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) working group is to develop OpenID specifications for the Issuer-Holder-Verifier-Model use-cases to enable issuance and presentations of the Digital Credentials of any format (W3C VCs, IETF SD-JWT VCs, ISO/IEC 18013-5, etc.) and pseudonymous authentication from the End-User to the […]
Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) Working Group
Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) Working Group – Overview The goal of the Digital Credentials Protocols (DCP) working group is to develop OpenID specifications for the Issuer-Holder-Verifier-Model use-cases to enable issuance and presentations of the Digital Credentials of any format (W3C VCs, IETF SD-JWT VCs, ISO/IEC 18013-5, etc.) and pseudonymous authentication from the End-User to […]