WS-Federation

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WS-Federation (Web Services Federation) is an 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, Novell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and VeriSign. Part of the larger Web Services Security framework, WS-Federation defines mechanisms for allowing different security realms to broker information on identities, identity attributes and authentication.

The following draft specifications are associated with WS-Security:

• WS-SecureConversation
• WS-Federation
• WS-Authorization
• WS-Policy
• WS-Trust
• WS-Privacy

• List of Web service specifications
• Web Services
• SAML
• XACML
• Liberty Alliance
• OpenID

• WS-Federation 1.2 specification
• Whitepaper: Understanding WS-Federation
• Whitepaper: Federation of Identities in a Web Services world

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