Early in January, I wrote about the newly launched FAMTalk, a monthly podcast hosted by Sun identity gurus. The February episode is now available: a presentation by Pat Patterson that discusses the history of the federation protocols, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, OpenID, and other related topics.Pat is joined by other identity experts in the podcast. A PDF file of the slides is online. I much enjoyed listening to the podcast—it's a comprehensive, clear, and illuminating resource.

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