I started talking about this elsewhere in the thread where someone suggests SAML's awful (agree) and OIDC is a better choice (disagree): https://news.ycombinato

I started talking about this elsewhere in the thread where someone suggests SAML's awful (agree) and OIDC is a better choice (disagree): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15914881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15914881 I think it answers the question of why SAML nicely, but the TL;DR is: you can pare SAML down to a sane subset, and crushing market penetration.