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Users can mix and match their Liberty Alliance and Microsoft Passport identities, but only if the federated organizations with which they're doing business--the alliance one and the Passport one--share the same identity provider. The identify provider is the site that acts as the go-between for both federations of identity. It translates between the Liberty Alliance's SAML-based technique and Microsoft's Kerberos-based authentication
(see "A Federation of Federations" ).
If the identity provider speaks both Liberty Alliance and Passport, a client or customer can log on to sites within a Liberty Alliance federation with his or her Passport ID, and vice versa.
Microsoft already offers its Passport services, and some Liberty Alliance products are available today as well. Hewlett-Packard,
Novell, Oblix, Trustgenix and WaveSet Technologies all provide software based on the Liberty Alliance specs (see "Sites To See.").
How to "Opt In" to the Federation with The Liberty Alliance Model
1. Log on to Member A's site in a circle
of trust. This can be a business partner, online business or service provider site.
Subsea cable alternatives can provide a level of comfort for those concerned about disruptions. Realistically, they will continue to play a small, but critical role in the short term.
Maintaining existing network infrastructures often incurs huge technical debt before newer technologies are adopted over time.
Amid ongoing regional uncertainties, telecom infrastructure in the Middle East has expand to include terrestrial low-latency network infrastructure, which offers resilience and agility in navigating political complexities without relying solely on undersea networks.
