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Hi Everyone

at the Atlanta meeting the following slides were presented during the
federation session

http://www.slideshare.net/davidwchadwick/keystone-apach-authn

It was acknowledged that the current design is sub-optimal, but was a
best first efforts to get something working in time for the IceHouse
release, which it did successfully.

Now is the time to redesign federated access in Keystone in order to
allow for:
i) the inclusion of more federation protocols such as OpenID and OpenID
Connect via Apache plugins
ii) federating together multiple Keystone installations
iii) the inclusion of federation protocols directly into Keystone where
good Apache plugins dont yet exist e.g. IETF ABFAB

The Proposed Design (1) in the slide show is the simplest change to
make, in which the Authn module has different plugins for different
federation protocols, whether via Apache or not.

The Proposed Design (2) is cleaner since the plugins are directly into
Keystone and not via the Authn module, but it requires more
re-engineering work, and it was questioned in Atlanta whether that
effort exists or not.

Kent therefore proposes that we go with Proposed Design (1). Kent will
provide drafts of the revised APIs and the re-engineered code for
inspection and approval by the group, if the group agrees to go with
this revised design.

If you have any questions about the proposed re-design, please don't
hesitate to ask

regards

David and Kristy