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Federated Identity
9 December 2010
 
Bob Blakley  

How should organizations exchange identity information across domains to support real-time sessions or transactions?





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Table of Contents

Contents
  • Decision Point
  • Decision Context
    • Related Decisions
  • Evaluation Criteria
    • Requirements and Constraints
      • Increase User Convenience
      • Minimize Costs
      • Enable New Business Opportunities and Applications
      • Integrate with Applications or Partners
      • Mitigate Risks
      • Compliance
      • Existing Applications
      • Organizational Structures
      • Business Partner Capabilities
    • Principles
  • Alternatives
    • Internal vs. External Federation
    • Identified vs. Unidentified Users
      • Personal Identifiers
      • Pseudonymous Identifiers
      • Anonymous Access
    • Attribute Choices
      • Authentication Only
      • Name Mapping (Account Linking)
      • Authorization and Attribution
    • Operational Security Choices
    • Federation Topology Choices
    • Trust Relationship Choices
    • Standards Choices
      • SAML
      • WS-Security
      • Liberty Alliance Identity Web Services Framework
      • WS-*
      • Shibboleth
      • Public-Key Infrastructure and Federation
      • Policy Languages and Metadata
      • Profiles, Extensions, and Proprietary Federations
  • Future Developments
    • Federated Provisioning
    • Trust Frameworks
    • Identity Networks
    • Evolving Regulations
    • User-Centric Federation
    • Evolving Standards
  • Decision Tool
    • Decision Filter
      • Identity Production and Consumption
      • Federation Topology
      • User Identification
      • Operational Security
      • Trust Relationships
      • Attributes
      • Compliance
      • Standards
  • Revision History
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Figure 1.
Federation Topologies
Figure 2.
Federation Standards




Document History:
 
Decision Point for Federated Identity
9 July 2012
  
Federated Identity
9 December 2010
  
Federated Identity
26 September 2008
  




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