Analysis · curated 1 Oct 2026
Identity Management for Agentic AI
First reported openid.net
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Why it matters
OpenID's agentic-AI identity agenda matters because weak delegation, user impersonation, and unbounded recursive agent-to-agent authority create accountability gaps and privilege-escalation risks that defenders must address as MCP-connected agents proliferate.
OpenID's "Identity Management for Agentic AI" whitepaper (Lead Editor Tobin South, October 2025) outlines authentication, authorization, and identity challenges for AI agents, noting that OAuth 2.1 works for single-domain synchronous agents but falls short for cross-domain, autonomous, asynchronous, and multi-user delegation scenarios. It flags future risks including agent identity fragmentation, user impersonation instead of true delegated authority, scalability problems in human consent, and recursive delegation across sub-agents without scope attenuation.