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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.

  1. standards & regulation

    The OpenID Foundation wants Australia's digital ID to be worth carrying

    Three submissions into Australian identity policy push for reusable credentials, interoperability, and rules for AI systems acting on a person's behalf.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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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