Don Schmidt recently posted this valuable entry announcing the publication of the IBM/Microsoft whitepaper “Understanding WS-Federationâ€:
Yesterday a White Paper, Understanding WS-Federation, was jointly published by IBM and Microsoft. The primary goal of this paper is to promote an appreciation for the functional scope of the revised publication of WS-Federation. As I have stated in previous posts, the scope of this specification extends far beyond the features delivered in first generation WS-Federation products, such as, Active Directory Federation Services v1.
The paper includes two use cases, an Enterprise “request for proposal†scenario and a Healthcare “emergency room treatment†scenario, that highlight key new features of WS-Federation 1.1. Textual descriptions of the scenarios are annotated with sample XML message flows.
Another goal of this paper is to encourage participation in the OASIS WSFED TC. Hopefully WS-Federation supporters and critics, alike, will find functionality that they care about, and be wiling to join in the open standards process for WS-Federation 1.1.
Very valuable reading for anyone wanting to understand the capabilities of WS-Federation, its relationship to WS-Trust, and the Security Token Service (STS) model.
And then in Don’s classic gracious style, he wrote the post “Standing on the Shoulders of Giantsâ€, giving credit where credit is due, and asking for broad community participation in the OASIS WSFED TC. I highly recommend it as well.
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