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<p class="MsoNormal">A third set of Release Candidates for the pending OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts have been released.  Like the first set, the
<a href="http://self-issued.info/?p=963">second set of Release Candidates</a>, which were published earlier this month, also received thorough review, resulting in a smaller set of additional refinements.  The changes primarily made some the claim definitions
 more precise and provided more guidance on support for multiple languages and scripts.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Were it not for a set of pending changes about to be made to the
<a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jose/">JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) specifications</a>, this set of specifications would likely actually be the Implementer’s Drafts.  However, the OpenID Connect working group made the decision to have those
 (non-breaking) JOSE changes be applied before we declare that the Implementer’s Drafts are done.  Expect announcements about both the JOSE updates and the OpenID Connect Implementer’s Drafts soon.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The new specifications are:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-25.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-basic-1_0-25.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-implicit-1_0-08.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-implicit-1_0-08.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-17.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-messages-1_0-17.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-18.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-standard-1_0-18.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-14.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-discovery-1_0-14.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-16.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-registration-1_0-16.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-session-1_0-13.html">http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-session-1_0-13.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-07.html">http://openid.net/specs/oauth-v2-multiple-response-types-1_0-07.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">See the History entries in the specs for more details on the changes made.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks again to all who reviewed and implemented the recent drafts!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">                                                            -- Mike<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">P.S.  I also blogged about this at <a href="http://self-issued.info/?p=976">
http://self-issued.info/?p=976</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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