SAML everywhere?

A couple of pictures from Paul Madsen's December 17th, 2006 ConnectID blog entry are most definitely worth many thousands of my words.



Madsen views the second picture as "more speculative" perhaps because it entails somehow transporting a SAML XML fragment through a query string in place of the pieces of an OpenID 1.0 Simple Registration Extension persona.

Certainly this calls to mind that aphorism about a camel passing through the eye of a needle. Of course, that was before Fortran took us all to the moon (and beyond) relying exclusively on a method of parameter passing called pass-by-reference.


Note that Liberty Alliance is a working group that promotes the federation architecture where a user might store identity information with several identity providers that might also be web sites. These sites have an agreement to share identity information.

At this point we probably need a score card to keep track of everything. Not everything under the sun. But everything under Identity 2.0. Fortunately, such a score card seems to exist. See also the reference to Identity 2.0 in Wikipedia.

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