Superpatterns

links for 2009-08-04
[ authentication connect fha fuluparfoll health id-wsf identity nhin oauth openid opensource opensso provisioning saml sun ]

• OpenSSO Part of Nationwide Health Information Network CONNECT Architecture - The Smoking Monkey
  OpenSSO is now part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) CONNECT Architecture. CONNECT implements a flexible, open-source gateway solution that enables healthcare entities – Federal agencies or private-sector health organizations or networks – to connect their existing health information systems to the NHIN.
  (tags: opensso connect nhin identity opensource health fha)
• Open your Identity to the World | www.brighttalk.com
  Great presentation (requires registration) by Fulup Ar Foll, Master Architect and CTO of Sun Microsystems' Global Software Practice, on extending identity beyond the enterprise.
  (tags: fuluparfoll identity provisioning authentication saml sun openid id-wsf oauth)

Mobile Operator Federation/Web Services Use Cases
[ federation fuluparfoll libertyalliance nokia usecases ]
My principal role, since I turned away from the 'dark side' of marketing and moved back into engineering, is technical architect for federation standards on Sun's Java^TM System Access Manager product. This means I get to work with some great technology and, more importantly, some great people. One such person is Fulup Ar Foll; Fulup is another techie, a Breton, and the goto guy for mobile federation/web services.

Fulup and I recently contributed to a joint Nokia/Sun whitepaper on identity federation and web services. The domain is mobile operators, but the paper covers a number of variations on the basic Liberty 'circle of trust'/'identity provider'/'service provider' model that can apply to any industry. It's pretty technical, but essential reading if you want to understand the future of mobile services.