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What about OIDC does not scale?

The things you just listed sounds like unnecessary complexity that inevitably leads to the “too big standard” problem, where every vendor and id provider has their own half assed, incomplete and incompatible implementation of the standard, or worse - with security bugs. Something quite often seen with SAML.

That’s not to say that oidc or oauth doesn’t have alignment issues. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35713518 “We implemented OAuth for the 50 most popular APIs. TL;DR: It is still a mess”




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