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BELLEVUE, Wash. – Dec. 17, 2020 –?Auth0, the identity platform for application teams, today announced that the?OpenID Foundation?will be the exclusive sponsor for season two of Auth0’s flagship podcast?‘Identity, Unlocked,’?scheduled to release in January 2021. Auth0 and the OpenID Foundation will bring their shared goals around promoting awareness, understanding, and adoption of open identity standards to the podcast in an effort to make identity more accessible.
Hosted by Vittorio Bertocci, identity expert and principal architect at Auth0, ‘Identity, Unlocked’ features conversations with identity thought leaders and explores the latest specifications and trends from a developer’s perspective, making identity more accessible to everyone.?Season one?recently concluded and featured interviews with industry standards experts and identity thought leaders, including Brian Campbell, Dick Hardt, Pamela Dingle, and many others.
Season two of ‘Identity, Unlocked’ will explore OpenID Connect specifications such as Financial-grade API (FAPI), Self-issued OpenID Connect (SIOP), and eKYC and Identity Assurance (IDA) to compliment the show’s history of interviewing those directly involved in the creation of identity standards. In addition to the OpenID Connect specifications, ‘Identity, Unlocked’ will continue to explore various specifications and trends across the identity industry.
“Our hope is that the OpenID Foundation’s sponsorship of the Auth0′ Identity Unlocked’ podcast will encourage further deep and diverse technical contributions to the open identity standards the Foundation has developed,” said Don Thibeau, OpenID Foundation Executive Director. “This podcast will continue to educate and introduce a global community of contributors to working groups like the Financial-grade API (FAPI), eKYC-IDA, and others. The deep dive into these technologies on ‘Identity Unlocked’ is a priority for the OpenID Foundation and a unique resource for open standards development in 2021.”
“Thank you to everyone involved in ‘Identity, Unlocked’ season one—we are grateful for the positive response we received during season one, and we look forward to collaborating on the second season in partnership with OpenID Foundation,” said Martin Gontovnikas, SVP of Marketing and Growth at Auth0. “Open identity standards are of critical importance, and it is our goal to make identity more accessible to everyone, in an inclusive way.”
To learn more about ‘Identity, Unlocked,’ visit?identityunlocked.com. To subscribe to the latest podcast updates and episodes, visit?Apple Podcasts?and?Spotify.
Vittorio Bertocci?is Principal Architect at Auth0 and applies his vast knowledge of the identity industry to Auth0 in all aspects of the company, including internal and external education, product innovation, and customer integration. Prior to Auth0, Bertocci spent 17 years at Microsoft, where he worked on the Azure Active Directory team and focused largely on improving the developer experience. As a published author of four identity books and a highly-trafficked blog: cloudidentity.com, his forward-thinking commentary has enabled him to speak at conferences, such as Identiverse, BUILD, PDC, TechEd, Cloud Identity Summit, and many other industry events around the world.
Auth0 provides a platform to authenticate, authorize, and secure access for applications, devices, and users. Security and application teams rely on Auth0’s simplicity, extensibility, and expertise to make identity work for everyone. Safeguarding billions of login transactions each month, Auth0 secures identities so innovators can innovate, and empowers global enterprises to deliver trusted, superior digital experiences to their customers around the world.
For more information, visit?https://auth0.com?or follow?@auth0 on Twitter.
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]]>The post Notice of Second Vote for Proposed Implementer’s Drafts of Three FastFed Specifications first appeared on OpenID.
]]>The Fast Federation (FastFed) working group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/fastfed/. If you’re not already a member, or if your membership has expired, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration.
The vote will be conducted at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/polls/226.
– Michael B. Jones, OpenID Foundation Secretary
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]]>The post Notice of Vote for Second Implementer’s Draft of OpenID Connect User Questioning API Specification first appeared on OpenID.
]]>The OpenID MODRNA Working Group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/mobile/. If you’re not already a member, or if your membership has expired, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration.
The vote will be conducted at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/polls/221.
– Michael B. Jones, OpenID Foundation Secretary
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]]>The post Notice of Vote for Proposed Final FAPI 1.0 Part 1 and Part 2 Specifications first appeared on OpenID.
]]>The Financial-grade API (FAPI) working group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/fapi/. If you’re not already a member, or if your membership has expired, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration.
The vote will be conducted at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/polls/216.
– Michael B. Jones, OpenID Foundation Secretary
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]]>Mr Andrew Stevens
Chairman, Consumer Data Standards Australia
Mr Paul Franklin
Executive General Manager, Consumer Data Right, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Ms Kate O’Rourke
Principal Advisor, The Treasury, Australia
Mr Daniel McAuliffe
Project Lead, Consumer Data Right, The Treasury, Australia
RE: OpenID Foundation Follow-up to ACDS on CDS
Dear Mr Stevens, Mr Franklin, Ms O’Rourke, and Mr McAuliffe,
This communication follows the letter I sent on August 13, 2019, as Chair of the OpenID Foundation’s?Financial-grade API (FAPI) Working Group. In my prior communication, I noted the Foundation performed an analysis of the Australian Consumer Data Standards (ACDS) that highlighted some deviations from the OpenID Connect and Financial Grade API ( FAPI ) standards.? Now that the majority of deviations have been removed this enables CDR Data Holders and Data Recipients to demonstrate their technical conformance with the FAPI standards. This increases the reliability of systems leveraging these standards, the repeatability in successive systems and trust among all stakeholders in the ecosystem.
The ACDS’s adoption of FAPI enables the members of your community to leverage the?OpenID Foundation certification program. It is a mature model in use today, at scale, via the Open Banking Implementation Entity from UK regulators, identity providers (Data Holders) and relying-parties (Data Recipients) to self-certify their OpenID Connect and FAPI deployments. The tests are available to all, today, at no cost, at any time. The test suite can be run by participants themselves locally on their infrastructure or by using the OIDF’s hosted service. At a time of their choosing participants’ test results are checked by the OIDF, a modest fee and they are added to a publicly available list of organizations that have demonstrated conformance to the FAPI standard.? This greatly assists participants, all types, large and small to achieve ACDS compliance and interoperate globally.
The Foundation recently updated the FAPI conformance suite to ensure that servers following the CDR standards comply with the underlying FAPI specifications.? A number of Australian organizations have tested these tests against their CDR environments. The interoperability and security issues found in the deployments of Data Holders and Data Recipients were then able to be fixed well before they caused concerns.
The success of testing the tests’ allows the Foundation to launch a FAPI compliance service for CDR data holders. This new service also optionally covers the new pushed authorization spec that CDR plans to start introducing in November 2020.? This is timely and important given the CDR’s is a new protocol without the benefit of existing test suites and few vendor implementations.
The purpose of this communication is to gauge the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC), and relevant internal parties, interest in supporting the OIDF’s launch of a FAPI technical conformance service for CDR participants. Your support would help expand its value to Accredited Data Recipients, and influence evolving the service in the future. We welcome ACCC’s involvement in the FAPI Working Group at any time. Any feedback on the FAPI CDR compliance service is welcome, especially prior to launch.
The Foundation’s considerable investment in its certification program ensures trusted implementations of open standards. The return is measured in positive impacts on interoperability and security. The UK’s use of the Foundation’s test suites has resulted in reduced engineering costs for all parties and facilitated market entry for new participants. This becomes particularly important as CDR is expanded to more entities. It highlights the importance that standards like FAPI evolve within their working groups.
OIDF’s certification program has proven its value to UK OpenBanking. It has revealed and assisted in resolving a significant number of interoperability and security problems in production systems in the nine largest UK banks while reducing integration costs for all. The certification and FAPI teams continue to work to ensure the tests reflect the intent of the specification authors and the needs of users.
We have run a series of joint workshops with the OpenBanking Implementation Entity in the UK, the Financial Data Exchange in the US to increase understanding of the standards and the benefits of the certification tools.? We hope we could run similar workshops with the assistance of the appropriate Australian entities.
Please consider engaging with the OpenID Foundation on the launch of the CDR testing service. Your involvement benefits the community at large by alignment with ACCC and ACDS goals. We would be happy to arrange a call to answer any questions you might have. Thank you for your consideration.
Regards,
Nat Sakimura
Chair, OpenID Foundation
Co-Chair FAPI Working Group
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]]>The post OpenID Foundation Executive Director Job Description first appeared on OpenID.
]]>The OpenID Foundation Executive Director (ED) reports directly to the Foundation’s Board of Directors and interacts extensively with the entire Board, Foundation contractors, Foundation members, and other organizations and individuals advancing open digital identity and open payments initiatives worldwide. The Executive Director has general oversight and executive management responsibilities for the business of the OpenID Foundation, with a strong emphasis on evolving the strategic mission of the organization and its international outreach and growth. The ED represents the OpenID Foundation in the international arena, is an advocate for open standards and adoption, and develops new business opportunities to extend the breadth and depth the OpenID Foundation’s contributions to useful open standards worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
The ideal candidate is transparent with high integrity leadership and should have 5+ years Executive Director/CEO/CIO/COO/VP/executive management experience and demonstrated experience with and knowledge of open standards development and adoption. An ideal candidate will have direct experience with technology standards bodies and will be a recognized contributor/leader in open standards, with experience supporting a Board of Directors. While the OpenID Foundation is based in the United States with its primary working language being English, candidates living in other countries with knowledge of other languages and/or experience of working in other countries and multinational organizations will be strongly considered.
Additionally, strong business and communication skills, demonstrated experience in delivering keynote presentations at conferences, and the ability to serve as the OpenID Foundation spokesperson globally are required. Experience working with non-profit and volunteer organizations is a plus. Recognition as a leader in the international open standards community is strongly preferred.
A primary goal of the OpenID Foundation’s Board of Directors in this leadership transition is to encourage and identify as diverse a group of applicants for the Executive Director position as possible.
To Apply or Recommend Candidates:
Those interested in the position should send a note to edsearch@oidf.org and include a Curriculum Vitae (CV). Suggestions for people to approach about the position are also welcomed there.
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]]>OpenID Foundation member, yes.com, is contributing the following to the Hackathon:
The Hackathon is open to everyone; developers, innovators, marketers, business experts etc. You may work individually, in teams of 2-5, and companies and nonprofit organizations are welcome to participate.
There is a prize pool of $15,000 to be given to the top ten winners.
November 10: Registration opens and the Hackathon begins
December 10: Hackathon closes
December 11-17: Jury reviews the projects
December 17: Winners announced!
To register and find more information on the Hackathon: https://santander.devpost.com
Learn more about the Foundation’s Financial-grade API (FAPI) Working Group.
Learn more about the Foundation’s eKYC & IDA Working Group.
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]]>The post Second Public Review Period for Three Proposed FastFed Implementer’s Drafts first appeared on OpenID.
]]>An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. This note starts the 45-day public review period for the specification drafts in accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures. Unless issues are identified during the review that the working group believes must be addressed by revising the drafts, this review period will be followed by a seven-day voting period during which OpenID Foundation members will vote on whether to approve these drafts as OpenID Implementer’s Drafts. For the convenience of members, voting will actually begin a week before the start of the official voting period.
These drafts incorporate updates to the specifications made in response to feedback during the previous review period. The previous versions did not become Implementer’s Drafts.
The relevant dates are:
* Note: Early voting before the start of the formal voting will be allowed.
The FastFed working group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/fastfed/. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration. If you’re not a current OpenID Foundation member, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote.
You can send feedback on the specifications in a way that enables the working group to act upon it by (1) signing the contribution agreement at http://www.jxxdbx.com/intellectual-property/ to join the working group (please specify that you are joining the “FastFed” working group on your contribution agreement), (2) joining the working group mailing list at https://lists.www.jxxdbx.com/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-fastfed, and (3) sending your feedback to the list.
— Michael B. Jones – OpenID Foundation Board Secretary
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]]>This would be the second Implementer’s Draft of this specification.
An Implementer’s Draft is a stable version of a specification providing intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification. This note starts the 45-day public review period for the specification draft in accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures. Unless issues are identified during the review that the working group believes must be addressed by revising the draft, this review period will be followed by a seven-day voting period during which OpenID Foundation members will vote on whether to approve this draft as an OpenID Implementer’s Draft. For the convenience of members, voting will actually begin a week before the start of the official voting period.
The relevant dates are:
* Note: Early voting before the start of the formal voting period will be allowed.
The OpenID MODRNA working group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/mobile/. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration. If you’re not a current OpenID Foundation member, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote.
You can send feedback on the specification in a way that enables the working group to act upon it by (1) signing the contribution agreement at http://www.jxxdbx.com/intellectual-property/ to join the working group (please specify that you are joining the “MODRNA” working group on your contribution agreement), (2) joining the working group mailing list at http://lists.www.jxxdbx.com/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-mobile-profile, and (3) sending your feedback to the list.
— Michael B. Jones – OpenID Foundation Board Secretary
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]]>The post Public Review Period for Proposed Final FAPI 1.0 Part 1 and Part 2 Specifications first appeared on OpenID.
]]>A Final Specification provides intellectual property protections to implementers of the specification and is not subject to further revision. This note starts the 60-day public review period for the specification drafts in accordance with the OpenID Foundation IPR policies and procedures. Unless issues are identified during the review that the working group believes must be addressed by revising the drafts, this review period will be followed by a seven-day voting period during which OpenID Foundation members will vote on whether to approve these drafts as OpenID Final Specifications. For the convenience of members, voting will actually begin three weeks before the start of the official voting period because of the holidays, for members who have completed their reviews by then.
The relevant dates are:
* Note: Early voting before the start of the formal voting will be allowed.
The FAPI working group page is http://www.jxxdbx.com/wg/fapi/. Information on joining the OpenID Foundation can be found at http://www.jxxdbx.com/foundation/members/registration. If you’re not a current OpenID Foundation member, please consider joining to participate in the approval vote.
You can send feedback on the specifications in a way that enables the working group to act upon it by (1) signing the contribution agreement at http://www.jxxdbx.com/intellectual-property/ to join the working group (please specify that you are joining the “FAPI” working group on your contribution agreement), (2) joining the working group mailing list at https://lists.www.jxxdbx.com/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-fapi, and (3) sending your feedback to the list.
— Michael B. Jones – OpenID Foundation Board Secretary
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