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The OpenID protocol that is used by Stack Exchange websites has been obsolete for a while.

Is it going to be upgraded to something that is not obsolete? OpenID Connect comes to mind.

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With the current global login system, the only thing SE really needs OpenID (or anything similar) for is people who log in using external credentials from Google / Facebook / etc. (and also a few historical special cases like SEDE, but those really should be fixed anyway).

So I suspect the answer is "whatever Google, Facebook and other major identity hubs will support." And Google and Facebook are already using OAuth anyway.

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    I think they meant are we going to update our in-house OpenID service which is what our standard email/password logins actually use - we've used OAuth for Google, Facebook, and the like for many years. – animuson♦ Jan 16 '17 at 5:29

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