Comment on Public Review Period for Proposed OpenID Federation 1.1 Final Specifications by The Journey to OpenID Federation 1.0 is Complete – Mike Jones: self-issued

[…] Originally, the specification was titled “OpenID Connect Federation 1.0” and the mission was exactly that – to enable multi-lateral federation when using OpenID Connect. Over time, we realized that the core trust establishment framework defined by the specification could be applied to any protocol and the spec was therefore renamed to “OpenID Federation 1.0”. Indeed, for a while, people had been clamoring to separate the protocol-independent trust establishment framework from the protocol-specific features for OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0. I made that split after OpenID Federation 1.0 entered final review, and the resulting OpenID Federation 1.1 specifications also entered review for final status today. […]