# Editor, SCIM Protocol (RFC 7644)

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/phil-hunt/
Last updated: 2026-09-20
License: content by Start with Identity. Cite the source URL.

---

## Bio

Phil Hunt is the editor of RFC 7644, the SCIM protocol, published in 2015 with co-authors from SailPoint, Cisco, Nexus, and Salesforce while he was at Oracle. He continues to work on IETF identity specifications, including SCIM profiles for security event tokens.

Profile built from public IETF records.

## Where their work shows up

[SCIM](https://startwithidentity.com/standards/scim-2-0/) is the reason deprovisioning can be automatic. Without a standard provisioning protocol, every joiner-mover-leaver process is a custom integration per application, and the leaver half is the one that quietly fails, leaving accounts alive after someone walks out. See [what is SCIM](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-scim/), the [best SSO and SCIM platforms for B2B SaaS](https://startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-sso-scim-platforms-b2b-saas/) ranking, and [identity governance](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-iga/) for where provisioning meets audit.