WS-Federation
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WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of CA Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Novell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and VeriSign. Part of the larger Web Services Security framework, WS-Federation defines mechanisms for allowing different security realms to broker information on identities, identity attributes and authentication.
Associated specifications
The following draft specifications are associated with WS-Security:
- WS-SecureConversation
- WS-Federation
- WS-Authorization
- WS-Policy
- WS-Trust
- WS-Privacy
See also
External links
- [http://docs.oasis-open.org/wsfed/federation/v1.2/ws-federation.html WS-Federation 1.2 specification]
- [http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/specs/ws-fed/WS-FederationSpec05282007.pdf?S_TACT=105AGX04&S_CMP=LP Whitepaper: Understanding WS-Federation]
- [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms951235.aspx Whitepaper: Federation of Identities in a Web Services world]
Category:Computer access control
Category:Identity management systems
Category:Web service specifications
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