Gluu, a leading open source cloud identity provider saml, today unveiled its plan for multi-party federations based on OpenID Connect. Details of the proposed design have been published on the OpenID Wiki.

1. Gluu, a leading open source cloud Federated Sso, today unveiled
Its plan for multi-party federations based on OpenID Connect. Details of the proposed
design have been published on the OpenID Wiki. This move reflects Gluu’s
developmental roadmap for OpenID Connect, and is also a call to the OpenID developer
community en masse for support on this important project.
“Currently, multi-party federations are only achievable via the SAML protocol, “said Gluu
CEO Michael Schwartz. “By designing multi-party federations in OpenID Connect, we
are hoping to make it easier for organizations, websites, and applications to provide a
simpler cloud identity experience to business people, developers and end users. We need
both tools and rules to enable privacy and security on the internet, and this proposed
enhancement to the OpenID Connect standard will be an important tool for the Internet
community.”
In Common is a good example of SAML multi-party federations in the higher education
sector. When a University joins In Common, they agree to operating policies, procedures,
and schema that allow them to establish single sign-on with resource providers that have
also agreed to certain level of privacy and trust.

2. This simplifies the process of establishing trust with multiple entities by eliminating the
need to structure individual SSO agreements one by one.
Gluu’s goal is to make managing trust with clients easier for organizations, and
publishing numerous active directory single sign on endpoints easier for resource
providers. Much of the conceptualization and design for this has been completed, and
Gluu expects to implement sso service in its open source OpenID Connect platform,
OX, by the end of 2012.
About Gluu:
Gluu is an Austin, TX startup that provides open source and on demand cloud identity
and trust management. Gluu leverages standards such as OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0,
and SCIM to make achieving single sign-on (SSO) secure and easy. Deployed quickly on
public and private cloud servers, Gluu’s cloud identity platform helps organizations
addresses the installation and operational issues of an organizational identity provider
at a predictable annual cost.
Article resource:-http://thegluuserver.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/gluus-openid-
connect-platform-to-support-multi-party-federations/