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More standards, and could the Government help with a 'home for the homeless'?
I've mentioned the monthly OIX meetings before and this week I managed to get to one to hear a very interesting presentation from Tim Bray - Google's outgoing Identity Evangelist.
Tim, and a number of other presenters highlighted the fact that OpenID Connect has been launched as a standard (http://openid.net/). I've been following OpenID Connect for a while, and now it is a standard I plan to dig into it a bit more to see if if we should support it within the UK federation. Your thoughts/comments are welcome. For more info see Tim's blog https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/03/01/OpenID-Connect.
He also mentioned that GSMA is looking to build a protocol on top of OpenIDConnect to come up with a standard way of authentication for mobile devices and the 4 UK mobile operators will shortly be launching pilot for technical, business and legal interoperability, with the Government Digital Service providing matched funding to see how they can take advantage of these new standards.
To demonstrate how easy it is to implement and use OpenID Connect, Tim's developed a demo (https://favcolor.net/account-login) that illustrates how you can choose your IdP via the account chooser (see www.accountchooser.com).