Salut Jean-Baptiste! sorry for my lack of knowledge, but it reminds me the OpenID protocol - looks like it uses the same terminology as well. How Fediz it is related to the OpenID specification? Many thanks in advance, all the best, Simo
http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to propose Fediz to be an Apache Incubator project. > > Fediz is an implementation of OASIS WS-Federation for Web SSO. The core > concept is to externalize the authentication process to a centralized > authentication server (called Identity Provider (IDP)) which can support any > kind of authentication mechanism. The IDP issues a security token like SAML > which contains the authenticated entity as well as role information and/or > other claim data of a user like name, email, others which is sent to the > application (called Relying Party (RP)). > > Here's a link to the proposal on the wiki > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/FedizProposal > > I've also included the initial contents below. > > As said in the subject (RFC), so any comments and new mentors are welcome > > Thanks > Regards > JB > -- > Jean-Baptiste Onofré > jbono...@apache.org > http://blog.nanthrax.net > Talend - http://www.talend.com > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
