The Industry’s Primary Agent Identity Standard Expires in 36 Days

The clock is ticking on the foundational protocol for Agent SSO . As of October 17, 2026, exactly 36 days remain before the current revision of the ID-JAG draft expires on November 22, 2026. While draft expiration is a routine administrative milestone in the IETF lifecycle, this one highlights the widening chasm between commercial agent infrastructure that is shipping now and the institutional process that is supposed to anchor it. ID-JAG, or the Identity Assertion JWT Authorization Grant, provides the mechanism for Cross-App Access (XAA). Authored by Aaron Parecki of Okta, Karl McGuinness, and Brian Campbell of Ping Identity, the draft extends OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange and the JWT Profile for Authorization Grants into a standardized way for an application to obtain access to another application’s API on behalf of…

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