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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="mso-ligatures:none">From:</span></b><span style="mso-ligatures:none"> Michael Jones
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 19, 2023 9:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> openid-specs-ab@lists.openid.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Ten Years of OpenID Connect and Looking to the Future<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">Ten years ago today the drafts that would be approved as the final OpenID Connect specifications were published, as announced in my post <a href="https://self-issued.info/?p=1154"><span style="color:#CA2017">Fourth and possibly last
Release Candidates for final OpenID Connect specifications and Notice of 24 hour review period</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">The adoption of OpenID Connect has exceeded our wildest expectations. The vast majority of federated signins to sites and applications today use OpenID Connect. Android, AOL, Apple, AT&T, Auth0, Deutsche Telekom, ForgeRock, Google,
GrabTaxi, GSMA Mobile Connect, IBM, KDDI, Microsoft, NEC, NRI, NTT, Okta, Oracle, Orange, Ping Identity, Red Hat, Salesforce, Softbank, Symantec, T-Mobile, Telefónica, Verizon, Yahoo, and Yahoo! Japan, all use OpenID Connect, and that’s just the tip of the
iceberg. While OpenID Connect is “plumbing” and not a consumer brand, it’s filling a need and doing it well.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">It’s fitting that the second set of errata corrections to the OpenID Connect specifications were just approved, as described in the post <a href="https://openid.net/second-errata-set-for-openid-connect-specifications-approved/"><span style="color:#CA2017">Second
Errata Set for OpenID Connect Specifications Approved</span></a>. While we are proud of the quality of the final specifications, with 9 3/4 years of thousands of developers using and deploying the specifications, it’s unsurprising that issues would be found
that need clarification and correction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">The updated OpenID Connect specifications have just been submitted to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for Publicly Available Submission (PAS) status. Approved PAS submissions are published as ISO specifications.
This will foster adoption in jurisdictions that require using standards that are published by organizations with international treaty status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">Celebrations of the <a href="https://self-issued.info/?p=1191"><span style="color:#CA2017">tenth anniversary of the approval of OpenID Connect</span></a> will occur worldwide in 2014. The first will be in Asia at the <a href="https://www.openid.or.jp/summit/2024/en/"><span style="color:#CA2017">OpenID
Summit Tokyo</span></a> in January. The second will be in the Americas at <a href="https://identiverse.com/"><span style="color:#CA2017">Identiverse</span></a> in May. The third will be in Europe at the <a href="https://www.kuppingercole.com/events/eic2024"><span style="color:#CA2017">European
Identity and Cloud Conference</span></a> in June. Join us at these events for the celebrations!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#111111">I can’t wait to see what the next decade brings for <a href="https://openid.net/connect/"><span style="color:#CA2017">OpenID Connect</span></a>!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> -- Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">P.S. This note was also published at <a href="https://self-issued.info/?p=2468">
https://self-issued.info/?p=2468</a> and referenced from <a href="https://twitter.com/selfissued/status/1737340841096773900">
https://twitter.com/selfissued/status/1737340841096773900</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/selfissued_ten-years-of-openid-connect-and-looking-to-activity-7143108357464154112-ho2x">
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/selfissued_ten-years-of-openid-connect-and-looking-to-activity-7143108357464154112-ho2x</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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