Computerworld NZ: Stay Open, Industry Tells E-govt

“The industry is keen on open standards when it comes to
authentication technology for accessing government services
online.

“A large number of the respondents to a request for information
put out by the government cited either SAML (security assertion
markup language), an XML-based security standard for exchanging
authentication, attribute and authorisation information, or XML
itself, as a ready-made base for the authentication
technology…”

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