School me on hub and spoke federations

[Corey Scholefield]

Hi Mike...

If you've got a chance, check out chapter 12 in Phil Windley's "Digital Identity" text, which provides a reasonable overview of 3 different federation patterns:

Ad-hoc federation
Hub-and-spoke federation
Identity federation network

<http://books.google.ca/books/about/Digital_Identity.html?id=o8mHSbDHgPsC>

Corey

Corey Scholefield | coreys at uvic.ca
Identity Systems Administrator
University of Victoria | Victoria, B.C. Canada
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Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:12 AM
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Subject: School me on hub and spoke federations

Was recently asked to look at Kennisnet.nl as federation for another client.  Looking at their fed they call it a "hub and spoke" federation.  Their metadata only consists of a single SP/Idp pair that Kennisnet maintains.  Does not look to work like the more traditional federations (a'la InCommon etc).

Google has been pretty worthless trying to get information on how this type of federation works.  Can anyone enlighten me?
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