Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol is a Web Services and Federated identity specification, published by Microsoft and Sun Microsystems that defines mechanisms for a service to query an identity provider for metadata concerning the protocol suites it supports. The goal of this operation is to increase the ability of a given service to interoperate with a given identity provider.Cover Pages: Microsoft and Sun Publish Web Single Sign-On (SSO) Identity Specifications
External links Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol
See also List of Web service specifications Web Single Sign-On Interoperability Profile SAML XACML OpenID WS-Federation
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