When that employee was no longer authorized
to do that, the gas producer could simply update
their own systems and not have to worry about communicating
anything to the pipeline company, and the
pipeline company could remove a whole layer of complexity
from their application because they wouldn??™t
need to deal with authentication or account information
any longer.
Providing Claims-Based Services
When claims-based programming is used across organizations,
new possibilities open up, and applications of identity information
that were simply impossible years ago are now not only
possible, but fairly easy to build. As we??™ve touched upon earlier,
claims-based programming is the capability to use claims about
a subject, regardless of the source of those claims. Let??™s look at
some examples of where a claims-based approach could be
valuable:
Uncovering the Rationale for Becoming an Identity Provider
Claims-based programming
can be
used to provide or
enhance several
types of valuable
services.
332 Identity Providers
Reputation and validated-claim services
Social networking sites are drawing members by the
millions and are very heavily populated by the younger
generations.
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