Federated Credentials Management (was WebID)

Category: Miscellaneous
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Origin trial (Chrome 108)
Intent stage: Prepare to ship

Summary

The Federated Credential Management API allows users to bring their federated identity to login to websites in a manner compatible with improvements to browser privacy.

Motivation

https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

Standards & signals

Specification: https://fedidcg.github.io/FedCM
Firefox: In development — Mozilla started to implement FedCM.
Safari: Positive
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1067455

Docs: https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

Explainers: https://github.com/fedidcg/FedCM

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