- WS-Federation
WS-Federation is an Identity Federation specification, developed by
BEA Systems ,BMC Software ,CA, Inc. ,IBM ,Layer 7 Technologies ,Microsoft ,Novell , andVeriSign [ [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-fed/ Web Services Federation Language ] ] . 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.External links
* [http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmdl/pub/software/dw/specs/ws-fed/WS-Federation-V1-1B.pdf?S_TACT=105AGX04&S_CMP=LP WS-Federation 1.1 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][ftp://www6.software.ibm.com/software/developer/library/ws-fedworld.pdf Whitepaper: Federation of Identities in a Web Services world]
* [http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/specification/ws-fed/ IBM's WS-Federation page]ee also
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List of Web service specifications
*Web Services
*SAML
*XACML
*Liberty Alliance
*OpenID References
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