OpenID Connect Federation 1.0
Full Name
This page describes the OpenID specification for Federation.
Context
- Created by OpenID Connect 1.0 team to specify how a Relying Party (RP) can discover metadata about an OpenID Provider (OP), and then register to obtain RP credentials.
- This specification describes how two entities that would like to interact can dynamically fetch and resolve trust and metadata for a given protocol through the use of third-party trust anchor.
- OpenID Connect Federation trust chains rely on cryptographically signed JSON Web Token (JWT) documents.
Taxonomy
- Entity = a globally named accessible over the internet that has a separate and distinct existence.
- Trust Anchor = an entity whose main purpose is to issue statements about entities,
- Entity Statement = a signed JWT that is the core component of the Federation spec.