OpenID Connect Federation 1.0
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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.
Taxonomy
- Trust Anchor = an entity whose main purpose is to issue statements about entities,
- The Entity Statement is the core component of the Federation spec.