Symmetric identity federation for fixed-mobile convergence

  • Authors:
  • Makiko Aoyagi;Tsuyoshi Abe;Kenji Takahashi

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT, Tokyo, Japan;NTT, Tokyo, Japan;NTT, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Digital identity management
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses issues with identity federation for fixed-mobile convergence to enable single sign-on to applications across networks, leveraging both fixed and mobile terminals. Standardized in OASIS SAML v2.0 specifications, identity federation is a mechanism to establish a link between the identity of a service and that of a different service over a network. Through these links, authentication results can be shared in single sign-on transactions. This paper focuses on two main issues: (1) symmetric identity federation, which enables identity management systems for different types of networks to act as both provider and consumer of identity data in federation transactions, and (2) cross terminal identity federation, which federates identities strongly tied to terminals and hence to a type of network with identities in other types of network. We have also prototyped implemented a solution for the issues and preliminarily confirmed its effectiveness.