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 drive adoption across digital identity […]
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 is a great way to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 Model Context Protocol Tool Authorization […]
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 threat intelligence. As identity has […]
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) earlier this year. Hosted by […]