http://www.cni.org/tfms/2009a.spring/abstracts/PB-next-klingenstein.html

Federation continues to evolve, spreading in scope, growing rapidly in membership, being applied to layers from networked devices to scholarly repositories, enabling more effective collaborations and collaboration tools, evolving in services offered and steady in its introduction of new issues that libraries could have a hand in addressing.

References cited:

• Identity Related Resources
  • InCommon
  • Internet-Scale Identity Systems: An Overview and Comparison
  • Windows CardSpace (InfoCard)
  • OAuth
  • SAML
  • Geneva (new MS AD)
  • uApprove
• Federated Killer Apps
  • Microsoft DreamSpark
  • Google Apps for Education

Reference sent by Brian Schottlaender