Ecosystem

OpenID Federation in the wild

Governments, academic networks, and identity platforms are adopting OpenID Federation worldwide — from national identity systems to cross-border academic research.

Production Deployments

Organizations running OpenID Federation in production today.

EU Digital Identity Wallet (eIDAS 2.0)

Europe

The Architecture Reference Framework mandates OpenID Federation for trust establishment between wallet providers, credential issuers, and relying parties across EU member states.

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Italy SPID/CIE

Italy

Italy's national digital identity system uses OpenID Federation at scale — connecting millions of citizens to public and private services through federated OIDC.

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GÉANT/eduGAIN

Global

The academic identity federation for research and education networks is adopting OpenID Federation to complement existing SAML infrastructure.

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Sweden SUNET (Satosa)

Sweden

SUNET integrates OpenID Federation into the Satosa proxy for Swedish academic identity infrastructure, bridging SAML and OIDC ecosystems.

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Implementation

This project provides the complete OpenID Federation 1.0 implementation for JavaScript.

@oidfed/*TypeScriptRuntime-agnostic

The complete OpenID Federation 1.0 implementation for JavaScript — runtime-agnostic, spec-compliant, built on Web API standards.

by Justin Dah-kenangnon

Specification Status

OpenID Federation 1.0 reached final specification status. The working group is preparing a 1.1 split that separates the core federation protocol from entity-type-specific profiles.

For a deep dive into the specification, its structure, and where it's heading, see the Learn app.