{"id":13,"date":"2007-06-02T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T07:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=13"},"modified":"2007-08-02T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T05:51:09","slug":"%e2%80%9cunderstanding-ws-federation%e2%80%9d-whitepaper-and-don%e2%80%99s-continuing-insights-on-federation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Understanding WS-Federation&#8221; Whitepaper and Don&#8217;s Continuing Insights on Federation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/identity-des.com\/\">Don Schmidt<\/a> recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/identity-des.com\/2007\/05\/31\/understanding-ws-federation\/\">this valuable entry<\/a> announcing the publication of the IBM\/Microsoft whitepaper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb498017.aspx\">Understanding WS-Federation<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yesterday a White Paper, <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb498017.aspx\">Understanding WS-Federation<\/a>, was jointly published by&nbsp;IBM and Microsoft.&nbsp; The primary goal of this paper is&nbsp;to promote an appreciation for the functional scope of the revised publication of WS-Federation.&nbsp; As I have stated&nbsp;in previous posts, the scope of this specification extends far beyond the features delivered in&nbsp;first generation WS-Federation products, such as, <a href=\"http:\/\/technet2.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/en\/technologies\/featured\/adfs\/default.mspx\">Active Directory Federation Services v1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper&nbsp;includes two use cases, an Enterprise &#8220;request for proposal&#8221;&nbsp;scenario and a Healthcare &#8220;emergency room treatment&#8221; scenario, that highlight key new features of <a href=\"http:\/\/specs.xmlsoap.org\/ws\/2006\/12\/federation\/ws-federation.pdf\">WS-Federation 1.1<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Textual descriptions of the scenarios&nbsp;are annotated with sample XML message flows.<\/p>\n<p>Another goal of this paper is to encourage participation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oasis-open.org\/committees\/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsfed\">OASIS WSFED TC<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Hopefully WS-Federation&nbsp;supporters and critics, alike,&nbsp;will find functionality that they care about, and be wiling to join in the open standards process for WS-Federation 1.1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>And then in Don&#8217;s classic gracious style, he wrote the post &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/identity-des.com\/2007\/06\/01\/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants\/\">Standing on the Shoulders of Giants<\/a>&#8220;, giving credit where credit is due, and asking for broad community participation in the OASIS WSFED TC.  I highly recommend it as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/identity-des.com\/\">Don Schmidt<\/a> recently posted <a href=\"http:\/\/identity-des.com\/2007\/05\/31\/understanding-ws-federation\/\">this valuable entry<\/a> announcing the publication of the IBM\/Microsoft whitepaper &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/msdn2.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/bb498017.aspx\">Understanding WS-Federation<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation","category-federation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-issued.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}