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Field Guide to Internet Trust Models: Federations

Kaliya Young · November 30, 2014 · 4 Comments

Federations

A Federation provides a standard, pre-negotiated set of contracts that allow organizations to recognize identities issued by one another. A federation agreement might specify user roles, governance, security and verification policies, or specific technical methods. The federation is organized around a Contract Hub, which is responsible for the agreements. Organizations with similar goals or structure create a standard agreement rather than negotiating individually.

When to Use: A large number of organizations can agree upon roles and governance, and can create a standard contract.

Advantages: Organizations can recognize identities that one another issue without having to negotiate individual agreements with every party.

Disadvantages: Not customized for individual member organizations. Because of the need to create an agreement that a large number of parties can agree to, the federation might be limited to lowest common denominator roles.

Ability to Scale: Very high.


The full papers is downloadable [Field-Guide-Internet-TrustID] Here is a link to introduction of the paper and a at the bottom of that post is a link to all the other models with descriptions.  Below are links to all the different models.

Sole source, Pairwise Federation,  Peer-to-Peer,
Three-Party Model 1) “Bring your Own” Portable Identity 2) “Winner Take All” Three Party Model:
Federations 1) Mesh Federations 2) Technical Federations 3) Inter-Federation Federations
Four-Party Model, Centralized Token Issuance, Distributed Enrollment, Individual Contract Wrappers, Open Trust Framework Listing

Internet Trust Models, My Papers, Trust Framework

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  1. Field Guide to Internet Trust Models: Introduction says:
    November 30, 2014 at 9:15 pm

    […] Federations: A single, standard contract defines a limited set of roles and technologies, allowing similar types of institution to trust identities issued by one another. […]

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  2. Field Guide to Internet Trust Models: Centralized Token Issuance, Distributed Enrollment says:
    November 30, 2014 at 9:21 pm

    […] Federations 1) Mesh Federations 2) Technical Federations 3) Inter-Federation Federations […]

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  3. Field Guide to Internet Trust Models: Mesh Federation says:
    November 30, 2014 at 9:23 pm

    […] Federations 1) Mesh Federations 2) Technical Federations 3) Inter-Federation Federations […]

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  4. Field Guide to Internet Trust Models: Technical Federation says:
    November 30, 2014 at 9:25 pm

    […] Federations 1) Mesh Federations 2) Technical Federations 3) Inter-Federation Federations […]

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