There's been some discussion regarding the merits of using JWT's (JSON Web Tokens) instead of Connect. Mike added some clarification in the form of a comment on the blog.

I also added it here [1]. Feel free to join the discussion on the blog.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13134752

[2] https://www.gluu.org/blog/oauth-vs-saml-vs-openid-connect/#c...