This is intended as a first step toward an analytical framework that would allow us to meaningfully compare and contrast widely different solutions to given usage scenarios in the general space of web security. For a given problem, SAML-federation-based solutions might initially appear quite orthogonal to, for example, UMA-based solutions, even for the same usage scenario. Yet in ambitious ventures such as NSTIC, we need to be able to make meaningful comparisons between drastically different proposed solutions.
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