Claim Based WS Federation

The WS federation we use as the foundation of our identity server was created in 2003 as a part of the larger WS-Security Framework which includes WS-Authorization, WS-Trust, and WS-Policy.

WS-Trust & WS-Federation provides a protocol for creating a claim-based security model across resource providers and across organizational boundaries. It does not enforce this format but defines the request/response mechanisms of the protocol. What this includes is what claim to send, what to include in it, how to establish cross federation trust etc.

Main functions:

• Realms
• WReply