... one way and another.
Mike Neuenschwander has just moved from his VP and Research Director roles at Burton Group to take up a new post as General Manager of the Security Practice at implementation company Mycroft. While still at Burton Group (almost exactly a year ago, at NetID 2007), Mike gave a comparative analysis of SAML and WS-Federation, noting that SAML had become "the de facto standard for federated identity".
Since Mike made that eminently quotable comment, SAML 2.0 adoption has continued apace; deployments at Google, NTT and the US Government's General Services Admininstration (GSA) have served to illustrate its cross-sectoral appeal. The current chairman of the Liberty Alliance, Oracle's Roger Sullivan, attributes a large measure of SAML's appeal to the extensive involvement of 'deployer' organisations in the specification development process.
Fortunately for Liberty, even if Mike N has moved on, Gartner Group's Gregg Kreizman has smoothly picked up the sound-bite baton:
"Governments and enterprises planning new identity federations should base their implementations on the SAML 2.0 standards."
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