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Identity thoughts #1: Analogy between a single app and a federated app

The following table shows an analogy of identity concepts between a single application and a federated application. The single app has its own identity silo and the federated app relies on an STS (like Geneva Server ). I find this analogy useful to explain how things differ from the non-federated non-claim-based world

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