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Open Identity Exchange
The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) was a non-profit organization that worked on the adoption of digital identity services based on open standards. It was also technology-agnostic and operated collaboratively across both the private and public sectors. As of August 31, 2024, the organization had ceased operations.
Shortly after coming into office, the Obama administration asked the General Services Administration (GSA) how to leverage open identity technologies to help the American public interact more easily and efficiently with federal websites, such as those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
At the 2009 RSA Conference, the GSA sought to build a public/private partnership with the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and the Information Card Foundation (ICF) to craft a workable identity information framework that would establish the legal and policy precedents needed to establish trust for Open ID transactions.
This partnership eventually developed a trust framework model; to trust that the Identity Provider is delivering accurate data, Identity Providers must ensure that the Relying Party is legitimate (i.e., not a hacker or phisher). While direct trust agreements between relying parties and identity providers are a common solution, they become unmanageable at the scale of the Internet. Further meetings were held at the Internet Identity Workshop in November 2009, resulting in OIDF and ICF forming a joint steering committee. The committee's task was to study the best implementation options for the newly created framework.
The US Chief Information Officer recommended the formation of a non-profit corporation, the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). In January 2010, the OIDF and ICF approved grants to fund the creation of the Open Identity Exchange. Booz Allen Hamilton, CA Technologies, Equifax, Google, PayPal, Verisign, and Verizon were all members of either OIDF or ICF and agreed to become founding members of OIX.
In 2014, OIX established the OIXnet trust registry, with the aim that it should become a global authoritative registry of business, legal, and technical requirements needed to ensure market adoption and global interoperability. OIXnet was an official, online, and publicly accessible repository of documents and information relating to identity systems and participants. It functioned as an official and centralised source of such documents and information, much like a government-operated recorder of deeds. Individuals and entities could register documents and information with the OIXnet registry to provide notice of their contents and allow access to the public or stakeholders.
In 2015, the OIDF also announced plans to register all companies self-certifying conformance to OpenID Connect via the OpenID Certification Program on OIXnet.
OIXnet was launched in 2015. The OpenID Foundation was the first registrant, registering the initial set of organisations, including Google, ForgeRock, Microsoft, NRI, PayPal, and Ping Identity, certifying conformance to OpenID Connect. Additional registrations were added to OIXnet throughout 2015 and 2016.
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Open Identity Exchange
The Open Identity Exchange (OIX) was a non-profit organization that worked on the adoption of digital identity services based on open standards. It was also technology-agnostic and operated collaboratively across both the private and public sectors. As of August 31, 2024, the organization had ceased operations.
Shortly after coming into office, the Obama administration asked the General Services Administration (GSA) how to leverage open identity technologies to help the American public interact more easily and efficiently with federal websites, such as those of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Social Security Administration (SSA), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
At the 2009 RSA Conference, the GSA sought to build a public/private partnership with the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and the Information Card Foundation (ICF) to craft a workable identity information framework that would establish the legal and policy precedents needed to establish trust for Open ID transactions.
This partnership eventually developed a trust framework model; to trust that the Identity Provider is delivering accurate data, Identity Providers must ensure that the Relying Party is legitimate (i.e., not a hacker or phisher). While direct trust agreements between relying parties and identity providers are a common solution, they become unmanageable at the scale of the Internet. Further meetings were held at the Internet Identity Workshop in November 2009, resulting in OIDF and ICF forming a joint steering committee. The committee's task was to study the best implementation options for the newly created framework.
The US Chief Information Officer recommended the formation of a non-profit corporation, the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). In January 2010, the OIDF and ICF approved grants to fund the creation of the Open Identity Exchange. Booz Allen Hamilton, CA Technologies, Equifax, Google, PayPal, Verisign, and Verizon were all members of either OIDF or ICF and agreed to become founding members of OIX.
In 2014, OIX established the OIXnet trust registry, with the aim that it should become a global authoritative registry of business, legal, and technical requirements needed to ensure market adoption and global interoperability. OIXnet was an official, online, and publicly accessible repository of documents and information relating to identity systems and participants. It functioned as an official and centralised source of such documents and information, much like a government-operated recorder of deeds. Individuals and entities could register documents and information with the OIXnet registry to provide notice of their contents and allow access to the public or stakeholders.
In 2015, the OIDF also announced plans to register all companies self-certifying conformance to OpenID Connect via the OpenID Certification Program on OIXnet.
OIXnet was launched in 2015. The OpenID Foundation was the first registrant, registering the initial set of organisations, including Google, ForgeRock, Microsoft, NRI, PayPal, and Ping Identity, certifying conformance to OpenID Connect. Additional registrations were added to OIXnet throughout 2015 and 2016.