I’ve been really really busy, with tons of ideas for things to write about but precious little time to string together the minutes or the sentences. But I have to point you to this new paper that just came out, providing a technical overview of the Liberty Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF).
This makes a nice companion to the recent announcement about the open-source OpenLiberty-J work. The heart of the paper is sort of an index into the features and benefits of the V2.0 framework, taking various technical high-level requirements in turn:
Web Service Identity Model
A model is required for carrying the identity of the various parties associated with a transaction within the messages generated to invoke a web service. The parties potentially needing to be identified include:
- Sender – The party sending the message.
- …
and providing a guide to how ID-WSF meets the need and where you can find more info:
ID-WSF V2.0 defines the following components in support:
- A profile of WS-Security and SAML to carry the Sender, Recipient, and Invoking identities, as defined in the Security Mechanisms specification, the Security Mechanisms SAML Profile, and the Discovery Service specification (Section 2.3.3.5).
- …
I’m off to the airport shortly or I’d make those spec mentions into real links. Guess you’ll have to check out the paper itself to get those!
