[Openid-specs-fastfed] Small number of IdPs?

Phil Hunt (IDM) phil.hunt at oracle.com
Wed Jun 7 20:13:18 UTC 2017


Not quite. There may be many small idps but they usually depend upon open source and / or commercial software that is professionally written. 

I suspect many will be suspicious of home cooked idps and not likely to accept automated configs without testing. 

Phil

> On Jun 7, 2017, at 12:33 PM, McAdams, Darin via Openid-specs-fastfed <openid-specs-fastfed at lists.openid.net> wrote:
> 
> A better clarification might be "a smaller number of IdP vendors, relative to the number of service providers"
> 
> Sent from my mobile
> 
> On Jun 7, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Mike Schwartz <mike at gluu.org> wrote:
> 
>>> On the other hand, there are a small number of IdPs. They tend to be
>>> identity experts, and many are motivated to solve this problem
>>> (presumed by membership in this working group).
>> 
>> I don't think this is true. There are thousands of organizations that operate their own IdP.
>> 
>> Does anyone else agree with this statement?
>> 
>> - Mike
>> 
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