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 […] The post How we got here: what six decades of identity history tell us about the agent age first appeared on OpenID Foundation .