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. To take an example a SAML-based solution to a given problem might initially appear quite orthogonal to UMA-based solution to the same problem. Yet in ambitious ventures such as NSTIC that aim to facilitate a new generation of online services, meaningful comparisons between drastically different and seemly incommensurable proposed solutions will be a common need.
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