Sun Federation Architect on Federated SOA

Pat Patterson, Sun's federation architect, recently spoke at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco. His blog, which points to the slides, summarizes the process flow. The standards involved are ID-WSF, ID-SIS, and ID-FF; the products, Sun Java System Access Manager, Sun Java System Federation Manager, OpenSSO, and NetBeans Enterprise Pack.It's always fascinating to read about all that behind-the-scenes magic. And can we emphasize enough the importance of security in the Web world?