Web Single Sign-On Metadata Exchange Protocol

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.

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