A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7831 Title: Application Bridging for Federated Access Beyond Web (ABFAB) Architecture Author: J. Howlett, S. Hartman, H. Tschofenig, J. Schaad Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: May 2016 Mailbox: josh.howlett@ja.net, hartmans-ietf@mit.edu, Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net, ietf@augustcellars.com Pages: 46 Characters: 114076 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-abfab-arch-13.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7831 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7831 Over the last decade, a substantial amount of work has occurred in the space of federated access management. Most of this effort has focused on two use cases: network access and web-based access. However, the solutions to these use cases that have been proposed and deployed tend to have few building blocks in common. This memo describes an architecture that makes use of extensions to the commonly used security mechanisms for both federated and non-federated access management, including the Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API), the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), and the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). The architecture addresses the problem of federated access management to primarily non-web-based services, in a manner that will scale to large numbers of Identity Providers, Relying Parties, and federations. This document is a product of the Application Bridging for Federated Access Beyond web Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/retrieve/bulk Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC