WS-Federation
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WS-Federation is an Identity Federation specification, developed by The Dot Net Factory, BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc., IBM, Layer 7 Technologies, Microsoft, Novell, Ping Identity, and VeriSign.[1] Part of the larger Web Services Security framework, WS-Federation defines mechanisms for allowing disparate security realms to broker information on identities, identity attributes and authentication.
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External links [edit]
- WS-Federation 1.1 specification
- Whitepaper: Understanding WS-Federation
- Whitepaper: Federation of Identities in a Web Services world
- IBM's WS-Federation page
Associated specifications [edit]
The following draft specifications are associated with WS-Security:
- WS-SecureConversation
- WS-Federation
- WS-Authorization
- WS-Policy
- WS-Trust
- WS-Privacy
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