With some of my recent posts I've been illustrating the benefits and capabilities of the Federaton Router available in HP Select Federation 7.
I am now pleased to be able to refer you to a complete white paper written by Jason Rouault, HP's Chief Technologist for IdM available on the Liberty Alliance site. You can download it here: http://www.projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/3782/24970/file/HP%20SF%20Router%20whitepaper.pdf
This white paper includes the use cases I referred to - including:
- Edge Router
- Tiered Router
- Trusted Authority Router; and
- Router with IDP
Jason summarizes:
The federation router architecture eliminates [] complexity. It allows an organization to have a single interface to the partners. With a single negotiation of technical and legal agreements, organizations can establish a partnership that may optionally be leveraged by various business units. Additionally those business units may interact with each other through a single interface without the need to support multiple protocols or to negotiate beyond the granting of access to the application to the business unit partner. The federation router architecture helps reduce the number of partnerships that need to be set up, while improving oversight, monitoring, controls and audit of the partnerships. It helps reduce the time-to-market and legal and planning costs, while insulating the organization's partners from the inevitable change that occur in its IT environment. The result is improved business continuity at a reduced cost.
I've recently seen folks adopt the term "Identity Router" as well, but note that the functionality they consider to warrant the term routing is limited and manual. Take a look at the management capabilities available in HP Select Federation. Then consider how much benefit this offers a deployment that needs to deliver quickly, and scale effectively over short or long periods of time.
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