Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective United by compact under a central organization, as governments or commercial organizations.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
federate . - adjective
united , as afederation , under acentral government
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- adjective united under a central government
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Examples
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A single-origin federated identity network will always fail on the internet (as Joseph Smarr and John McCrea like to say of Facebook Connect: We’ve seen this movie before).
Responding to criticisms about OpenID: convenience, security and personal agency | FactoryCity 2008
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So-called federated identity management allows agency and corporate sites to trust credentials that are issued by an outside entity.
J.H. Snider: The Case of the Missing White House Petitions J.H. Snider 2011
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So-called federated identity management allows agency and corporate sites to trust credentials that are issued by an outside entity.
J.H. Snider: The Case of the Missing White House Petitions J.H. Snider 2011
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So-called federated identity management allows agency and corporate sites to trust credentials that are issued by an outside entity.
J.H. Snider: The Case of the Missing White House Petitions J.H. Snider 2011
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True, they are indirectly elected to the Sound Transit board, but there's a reason the agency has what is known as a federated system.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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If you want corporations to embrace the notion of federated identity, wouldn't it require more than simple "look at me" interoperability demos and for all the vendors in this space to create some publicly available notion of "reference architecture" above and beyond what exists in Project Liberty?
From Incite comes Insight...: Thoughts on bloggers and Federated Identity James McGovern 2005
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Instead of centralized digital IDs, Microsoft is pushing a concept known as federated identity, where different organizations develop ways to share and trust identity information about their users.
CIO.in 2009
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Relying on a novel technology called federated search, WorldWideScience. org gives science information consumers a single entry point for searching far-reaching science portals in parallel, with only one query, saving time and effort.
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Now, the company is talking about the notion of federated identity and co-operating with OpenID.
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This could be called a federated CMDB - but that would be even more confusing so we provide "integration".
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