Basic - Basic spec will become the de-facto Connect standard unless deleted

[Michael Jones]

Yaron Goland wrote: "For the record I still object to the openid-connect-basic draft. I think it's the equivalent of a W3C primer and the results will be the same, the 'real' standard will be completely ignored and only the basic draft will get any attention."

[John Bradley]

Is this consistent with the argument to move more into extensions?

Basic is just for RP not server. Perhaps some IdP will only deploy features consistent with Basic.

I don't think we have the option to drop the basic client profile for political reasons.

[Nat Sakimura]

If it becomes a de facto relying party standard, that is fine because it is easy to adopt by design. That is our explicit design criteria.