ID-WSF

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In computer networking, Identity Web Services Framework is a protocol stack that profiles WS-Security, WS-Addressing, SAML and adds new protocol specifications of its own, such as the , for open market per user service discovery, and the for delegation and social networking.

Development[]

The ID-WSF stack was developed by the Liberty Alliance. The first release, ID-WSF 1.0 (and subsequent 1.1 and 1.2) were released in 2003. ID-WSF1 was interoperability tested^[1] among several vendor implementations, which received certification from the Liberty Alliance.

However, the first version of ID-WSF was not widely adopted. Perhaps the only significant adoption was by France Telecom and the French government's . Some adoption happened in Japan as well. Liberty Alliance proceeded to create an improved version, the ID-WSF 2.0 in 2006, which included harmonization with certain WS-* technologies, such as WS-Addressing and WS-Security. These changes were vigorously, and successfully, lobbied by of AOL (at the time). ID-WSF 2.0 interoperability certification was participated by several major league vendors, as well as by startups and open source projects.^[2]

Since then, ID-WSF 2.0 has become the only widely accepted interoperable profile of WS-* technologies. Its strength is essentially in narrow focus where tight enough profile for interoperability was specified. ID-WSF 2.0 interoperability certification by Liberty Alliance was accomplished by several vendors, including some open source.

ID-WSF 2.0 has been adopted as standards base by the Finnish e-government project and by the European Commission FP7 project .

List of Implementations of ID-WSF[]

• Sun Microsystems
• Trustgenix
• NEC
• NTT
• Symlabs SFIS^[3]
• ZXID.org - the reference implementation of - Trusted Architecture for Securely Shareable Services, with Privacy
• Lasso, C library, bindings in Python, Java, Perl and PHP, GNU GPL Licence, developed by Entr'ouvert

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