is OpenID Connect on the roadmap?

[Paul Hethmon]

Rod,

Thanks for sharing that. I've not run across it before, but it is so true.

cheers,

Paul


On 11/1/12 8:48 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>Sort of relevant:
>
>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
>
>"It didn't work well last time, so we'll start again from the ground up
>and this time it's bound to take off".
>
>Even if it isn't relevant to the topic, it has to be relevant to any
>mailing list with "dev" in the title.  Anyone who has developer
>pretensions need to read this and the mythical man month at least once a
>decade.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev-bounces at shibboleth.net [mailto:dev-bounces at shibboleth.net] On
>>Behalf Of Tom Scavo
>> Sent: 31 October 2012 23:50
>> To: Shibboleth Developers
>> Subject: is OpenID Connect on the roadmap?
>> 
>> I realize the Shib dev team is sorta rebuilding right now but I thought
>>I'd bring this up anyway. Are
>> there plans to add OpenID Connect to the list of protocols supported by
>>the IdP? It would be much
>> easier to introduce OpenID Connect in the InCommon Federation if the
>>IdP supported it natively.
>> 
>> A possible response might be: why implement OpenID Connect in the IdP
>>first (if Shib supports it at
>> all)? As is usually the case, it's a chicken-and-egg problem that kinda
>>depends on how you look at it.
>> My thought (today) is that if OpenID Connect succeeds, it will succeed
>>at internal SSO before external
>> SSO (which is exactly what we've seen happen with SAML). But I don't
>>really want to debate priorities,
>> I'm more interested in your thoughts regarding OpenID Connect as a
>>supported protocol in Shibboleth.
>> 
>> Thoughts?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
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