Business
decision makers and IT managers will probably be interested in
some of these considerations, too. Hints for developers are
spread throughout the text.
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Chapter 6, ???Identity Consumers,??? presents some thoughts about
deciding to be or to use an identity provider. It also looks at
things from the viewpoint of being a relying party: for example,
the main effects on your business and operations of accepting
identities in form of tokens and from third parties, and the opportunities
you want to take advantage of and the caveats you
want to avoid.
Chapter 7, ???Identity Providers,??? lists some considerations to
keep in mind when becoming an identity provider.
Conventions
This book follows the conventions of the Independent
Technology Guides series. Analysis sections appear in boxed
sidebars and give you added perspective on the issues and technologies
being discussed. Also, margin notes are included
throughout the chapters summarizing or pointing out the most
important points.
Code-continuation characters are occasionally used in lines of
code when we??™ve broken lines to ?¬?t the printed page. Lines broken
by code-continuation arrows should be entered as one line
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