Four-Party Model A four-party model provides a comprehensive set of interlocking legal contracts that detail roles, responsibilities, and technical methods. In order to take part in the network, each party must agree to one of the contracts in a given framework. Identity providers specialize in providing support for particular roles. Examples: The credit card networks, […]
Field Guide
The Sole Source
13 September 2013 by
This article is part of the PDEC Field Guide to Internet Trust Models. A Sole Source is an organization that acts as identity provider (IdP) and relying party (RP) for itself. This organization issues all identities that it recognizes, and only trusts identities that it has issued. An organization like this does not federate identities at all. […]
Internet Trust, Identity, and Making Sausage
30 August 2013 by
One of the projects that Kaliya and I are working on is an update to our paper, “A Field Guide to Internet Trust Models“. The original was well received (we even won an award), and readers offered good feedback. In keeping with that spirit of community, we decided to publish the updates here as we […]