Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol is a
Web Services and
Federated identity
A federated identity in information technology is the means of linking a person's electronic identity and attributes, stored across multiple distinct identity management systems.
Federated identity is related to single sign-on (SSO), in which a ...
specification, published by
Microsoft
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and
Sun Microsystems
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that defines mechanisms for a service to query an identity provider for metadata concerning
the protocol suites it supports. The goal of this operation is to increase the ability of a given service to interoperate with a given identity provider.
Cover Pages: Microsoft and Sun Publish Web Single Sign-On (SSO) Identity Specifications
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External links
Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
See also
*List of Web service specifications
There are a variety of specifications associated with web services. These specifications are in varying degrees of maturity and are maintained or supported by various standards bodies and entities. These specifications are the basic web services ...
* Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile
*SAML
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML, pronounced ''SAM-el'', ) is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and a service provider. SAML is an XML-based m ...
*XACML
XACML stands for "eXtensible Access Control Markup Language". The standard defines a declarative fine-grained, attribute-based access control policy language, an architecture, and a processing model describing how to evaluate access requests a ...
*OpenID
OpenID is an open standard and decentralized authentication protocol promoted by the non-profit OpenID Foundation. It allows users to be authenticated by co-operating sites (known as relying parties, or RP) using a third-party identity provid ...
*WS-Federation
WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an Federated identity, Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, CA Inc. (along with Layer 7 Technologies now a part of CA Inc.), IBM, Microsoft, Nove ...
References
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