While my personal preference is to not release PII as part of authentication, 
We do have people demanding attributes in SAML and Connect at LoA 2+ for 
identity resolution at the relying party.
https://www.idmanagement.gov/sites/default/files/documents/FICAM_TFS_ATOS.pdf  
(see Appendix A)

JWT is used in much more than just OAuth these days.

John B.



On Oct 6, 2014, at 6:42 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:

>> 
>> but sometimes the very
>> point of a JWT is to securely deliver PII from a verifiable party to
>> an intended party with appropriate rights to receive it.
> 
> Hmm. Its a moot point (so let's not argue it) but I wonder how
> often PII is really needed for authorization with oauth. My guess
> would be that its needed far less often than its found to be
> profitable perhaps, or that carelessness plays a big role in
> using PII for such purposes.

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