The Access Manager Federation Management feature is built upon Liberty Alliance frameworks. The Liberty Alliance Project developed the following specifications and guidelines for implementing complete network identity infrastructures and for deploying identity-based web services:
Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF)
Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF)
Data Services Template (ID-WSF DST)
Identity Services Interface Specifications (ID-SIS)
For more information these specifications, and listings of Liberty web service products, case studies, and white papers, see the Liberty Alliance Project website: http://www.projectliberty.org/