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 To take an example, 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 will need to be able to make meaningful comparisons between drastically different and seemly incommensurable proposed solutions.
The initial goal here will be to define a spanning set of atomic functions that can be shown to be combinable in different ways to compose commonly discussed multi-capability service and application models. The services and applications are the typical units of analysis when a given model is being presented.
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