You're giving too much credit to the foundation. OpenID was an organic effort on authentication before it became a design by committee, the root would be somewh

You're giving too much credit to the foundation. OpenID was an organic effort on authentication before it became a design by committee, the root would be somewhere at Twitter or other big web companies very long ago. OpenID Connect is not an authentication solution by the way. It's at best a few standard requests and parameters, all of which are optional, that could be used to interconnect authentication systems if that's what you're trying to do. Authentication and most of everything is left to the implementation.