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Going Places. Destination Yet Unknown.
Dynamic Federation. A Game Changer?
Today's federation deployments, while secure, enterprise tested and gaining in momentum in B2B single sign-on scenarios, still lack one key networking characteristic. Namely, a network effect.
Every new SAML server which comes online today, unfortunately, is not instantly usable by other SAML installations. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that today, not only are we not achieving Metcalfe's law of network effects, I'm not sure if we're even achieving 1+1=2.
That's about to change.
We've been busy here at Ping innovating to take SAML further -- without changing the specification. We've added some conventions that when adhered to, effectively enable 'connectionless federation'. We're referring to it as dynamic federation, or auto-federation.
Depending on how you configure this new dynamic federation capability, it has the potential to significantly reduce the technical friction in federation by as much as 90%. In certain scenarios, such as enterprise use of SaaS, it holds the potential of completely eliminating the coordinated dance between business and IT folks that today must happen to make a SAML federation connection happen.
Created 11/12/2007; 11:11:39 AM. Updated Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 6:08:29 AM
(C) 2008 Andre Durand - Federated Identity Management
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