computer network A computer network is a set of computers sharing resources located on or provided by network nodes. The computers use common communication protocols over digital interconnections to communicate with each other. These interconnections are ...

ing, Identity Web Services Framework is a

protocol stack The protocol stack or network stack is an implementation of a computer networking protocol suite or protocol family. Some of these terms are used interchangeably but strictly speaking, the ''suite'' is the definition of the communication protoco ...

that profiles

WS-Security Web Services Security (WS-Security, WSS) is an extension to SOAP to apply security to Web services. It is a member of the Web service specifications and was published by OASIS. The protocol specifies how integrity and confidentiality can be enfor ...

WS-Addressing Web Services Addressing (WS-Addressing) is a specification of transport-neutral mechanism that allows web services to communicate addressing information. It essentially consists of two parts: a structure for communicating a reference to a Web ser ...

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 ...

and adds new protocol specifications of its own, such as the

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, for open market per user service discovery, and the

People Service A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of propert ...

for delegation and social networking.

Development

The ID-WSF stack was developed by the

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. The first release, ID-WSF 1.0 (and subsequent 1.1 and 1.2) were released in 2003. ID-WSF1 was interoperability tested among several vendor implementations, which received certification from the Liberty Alliance. However, the first version of ID-WSF was not widely adopted. Perhaps the only significant adoption was by

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and the French government's

Mon Service Public Mon, MON or Mon. may refer to: Places * Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar * Mon, India, a town in Nagaland * Mon district, Nagaland * Mon, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India * Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Canton of Grisons * ...

. Some adoption happened in Japan as well. Liberty Alliance proceeded to create an improved version, the ID-WSF 2.0 in 2006, which included harmonization with certain WS-* technologies, such as

and

. These changes were vigorously, and successfully, lobbied by

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(at the time). ID-WSF 2.0 interoperability certification was participated by several major league vendors, as well as by startups and open source projects. Since then, ID-WSF 2.0 has become the only widely accepted interoperable profile of WS-* technologies. Its strength is essentially in narrow focus where tight enough profile for interoperability was specified. ID-WSF 2.0 interoperability certification by Liberty Alliance was accomplished by several vendors, including some open source. ID-WSF 2.0 has been adopted as standards base by the Finnish e-government project and by the European Commission FP7 project TAS3.

List of Implementations of ID-WSF

* Sun Microsystems * Trustgenix * NEC * NTT * Symlabs SFIS *

ZXID ZXID.org Identity Management toolkit implements standalone SAML 2.0, Liberty ID-WSF, ID-WSF 2.0, and XACML 2.0 stacks and aims at implementing all popular federation, Single sign-on, SSO, and ID Web Services protocols. It is a C implementation ...

.org - the reference implementation of TAS3 - Trusted Architecture for Securely Shareable Services, with Privacy * Lasso, C library, bindings in Python, Java, Perl and PHP, GNU GPL Licence, developed by Entr'ouvert

References

{{reflist Computer access control XML-based standards