The Financial Grade API (FAPI) Security Profile Parts 1,2 and XNUMX, and the Authorization Response JWT Protected Mode (JARM) have entered Public Review before Implementer Draft Ballot.

The OpenID Financial Grade API Working Group has recommended the following specification draft for approval as an OpenID Implementer's Draft:

• Financial Grade APIs – Part 1: Read-Only API Security Profile
• Financial Grade APIs – Part 2: API Security Profiles for Reading and Writing
• Financial Grade API – OAuth 2.0 Authorization Response JWT Protected Mode (JARM)

Implementer Drafts are stable versions of a specification that provide intellectual property protection to implementers of the specification. The OpenID FoundationThis announcementwill begin a 45-day public review of the draft specification in accordance with the OpenID Foundation's IPR policies and procedures. This review period will be followed by a 7-day voting period unless the Working Group identifies an issue that it believes should be addressed by revising the draft.¹

The relevant dates are:

• Public Review Dates for Implementers Draft: Friday, August 2018, 8 to October 31, 2018 (10 days)
• Implementer's Draft Vote: Tuesday, October 2018, 10
• Draft voting period for the organizers: Tuesday, October 2018, 10 to Tuesday, October 8, 2018*

The OpenID Financial Grade API Working Group page ishttp://openid.net/wg/fapi/For information about joining the OpenID Foundation, go tohttps://openid.net/foundation/members/registrationIf you are not currently a member of the OpenID Foundation, please consider becoming a member and participating in the adoption vote.

To submit comments on the draft specification,

1. https://openid.net/intellectual-property/Sign the terms of the agreement,
2. https://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-fapiJoin the Working Group mailing list at
3. Please send your comments to the mailing list.

1. For members' convenience, voting actually begins one week prior to the start of the official voting period.