First Public Working Drafts for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) 1.0 Authentication Suite

The Linked Web Storage Working Group has published the following four First Public Working Drafts: 

• LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: OpenID Connect – This document defines an OpenID Connect-based authentication suite for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) protocol, enabling LWS applications to integrate with OpenID providers.
• LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: SAML 2.0 – This document defines a SAML-based authentication suite for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) protocol, enabling LWS applications to integrate with SAML 2.0 identity providers.
• LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: Self-signed Identity using Controlled Identifiers – This document defines an authentication suite for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) protocol, enabling clients that are able to sign their own identity tokens to integrate with LWS.
• LWS 1.0 Authentication Suite: Self-signed Identity using did:key – This document defines an authentication suite for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) protocol, enabling clients that are able to sign their own identity tokens to integrate with LWS while using agent identifiers with the did:key method.