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On 09/11/2013 02:35 PM, Brad Topol wrote:
> Hi Adam,
>
> One thing I think we should capture before going deep into design and 
> implementation is to understand the federated identity use cases that 
> our stakeholders need us to support. I'm hoping we all can start 
> capturing these in a federated identity icehouse design summit session.

Stakholders. You keep using that term.  I do not think it means what you 
think it means.

In this case, we have a pretty good idea what is meant by Federation in 
general, and we know what some of the people interested in Open Stack 
want.  The more input we can get, the better.

However, We know that we have requests for ABFAB and SAML integration, 
and have had discussions about them at the last Summit, so this is not 
new stuff.  What we are trying to do is figure out the commonalities of 
the various Federation approaches so we have and easily understand 
approach to integrating new providers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brad
>
> Brad Topol, Ph.D.
> IBM Distinguished Engineer
> OpenStack
> (919) 543-0646
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> Assistant: Cindy Willman (919) 268-5296
>
>
>
> From: Adam Young <ayoung at redhat.com>
> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List 
> <openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org>
> Date: 09/11/2013 11:28 AM
> Subject: [openstack-dev] Keystone and Multiple Identity Sources
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>
>
> David Chadwick wrote up an in depth API extension for Federation:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/39499
> There is an abfab API proposal as well:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/42221/
>
> After discussing this for a while, it dawned on me that Federation
> should not be something bolted on to Keystone, but rather that it was
> already central to the design.
>
> The SQL Identity backend is a simple password store that collects users
> into groups.  This makes it an identity provider (IdP).
> Now Keystone can register multiple LDAP servers as Identity backends.
>
> There are requests for SAML and ABFAB integration into Keystone as well.
>
> Instead of a "Federation API"  Keystone should take the key concepts
> from the API and make them core concepts.  What would this mean:
>
> 1.  Instead of "method": "federation" "protocol": "abfab"  it would be
> "method": "abfab",
> 2.  The rules about multiple round trips (phase)  would go under the
> "abfab" section.
> 3.  There would not be a "protocol_data" section but rather that would
> be the "abfab" section as well.
> 4.  Provider ID would be standard in the method specific section.
>
> One question that has come up has been about Providers, and whether they
> should be considered endpoints in the Catalog.  THere is a couple issues
> wiuth this:  one is that they are not something managed by OpenStack,
> and two is that they are not necessarily Web Protocols.  As such,
> Provider should probably be First class citizen.  We already have LDAP
> handled this way, although not as an enumerated entity.  For the first
> iteration, I would like to see ABFAB, SAML, and any other protocols we
> support done the same way as LDAP:  a deliberate configuration option
> for Keystone that will require a config file change.
>
> David and I have discussed this in a side conversation, and agree that
> it requires wider input.
>
>
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