{"id":521,"date":"2008-05-20T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/21\/the-fedlet-as-an-r-sts\/"},"modified":"2013-03-14T22:29:57","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T07:29:57","slug":"the-fedlet-as-an-r-sts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/20\/the-fedlet-as-an-r-sts\/","title":{"rendered":"The fedlet as an R-STS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am horribly behind schedule with my blog, I still have to post a wrapup of IIW but didn&#8217;t find the time so far; however I want to quickly comment on the recent coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fedlet.com\/\">Fedlet<\/a> (see <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.com\/superpat\/entry\/the_fedlet_lives\">Pat himself here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/connectid.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/sun-fedlet.html\">Paul here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>I attended the nice <a href=\"http:\/\/iiw.idcommons.net\/index.php\/Iiw2008a\">IIW<\/a> session during which Pat demonstrated the fedlet. I found it interesting and strangely familiar.At a certain point I could not help myself and asked: &#8220;Pat, just for the sake of expressing things in the terminology of a domain I am comfortable with: would it be fair to say that the fedlet is a resource STS?&#8221;. Pat thought for a moment about it, then nodded vigorously (&amp; translated for the rest of the audience :-)).<\/p>\n<p>If that&#8217;s the case, I concur that it is a very agile tool for handling claim transformation without &#8220;polluting&#8221; the entire directory with local settings while still keeping the resource itself clear from identity management code. That&#8217;s exactly why I love R-STSes! I would assume that things said <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2007\/09\/24\/the-resource-sts-r-sts-rp-sts-a-sts-the-other-face-of-token-issuing.aspx\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vbertocci\/archive\/2008\/04\/20\/cloud-computing-and-identity.aspx\">here<\/a> apply, with the obvious adaptations for the technological differences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am horribly behind schedule with my blog, I still have to post a wrapup of IIW but didn&#8217;t find the time so far; however I want to quickly comment on the recent coverage of the Fedlet (see Pat himself here and Paul here). I attended the nice IIW session during which Pat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,9,97,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-ws","category-identity","category-iiw","category-saml"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1723,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}