WS-Federation


WS-Federation is an Identity Federation specification, developed by a group of companies: BEA Systems, BMC Software, 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.

Associated specifications

The following draft specifications are associated with WS-Security:
  • WS-SecureConversation
  • WS-Federation
  • WS-Authorization
  • WS-Policy
  • WS-Trust
  • WS-Privacy