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Standards & Regulation

OpenID, IETF and the specifications and rules shaping enterprise identity. Review windows, draft analysis, and what each change will mean once it lands in practice.

standards & regulation · ai & agent identity

The new MCP specification makes agent tool calls something you can actually govern

Stateless requests, the method and tool name exposed in HTTP headers, and a tighter OAuth story. MCP is moving from convenient to controllable.

standards & regulation · ai & agent identity

The AI agent authorization draft, explained

OAuth, workload identity and consent records, assembled into one model for agents acting on your behalf. It is one person's draft, not a standard.

standards & regulation

Three identity standards are open for comment, and one is now published

Three OpenID Foundation windows close between 19 August and 15 September. Plus the CSA AI Controls Matrix, now published in full.

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