GSA / ficam-federation

Information on Federation within the US Federal Government.
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Update - February 6, 2023

This material was incorproated into the FICAM Playbooks areas outlined below.

  1. Federation Services of the FICAM Architecture
  2. Federate Application Access
  3. Attribute Supported Federation
  4. Trust Frameworks

This site is now a public archive.


This work is in early Alpha stage and is led by the GSA FICAM Program in coordination with the ICAM Subcommittee of the Federal CIO Council.

FICAM Guides

This repository is for the collaborative development of the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Federation Playbook. The content is supporting the creation and future versions of federation programmatic guidance, previously found in the FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guidance v2.0, Section 12, and the FICAM Relying Party Guidance for Accepting Externally Issued Credentials.

Additional repositories are under development for contributors to share ICAM implementation guides, code, reference implementations, and solutions.

General Practices

This content is Vendor neutral. Marketing materials for Commercial Products should not be submitted. If you would like to contribute a page or content which includes Commercial Products and a specific references for development and engineering, please review the Commercial Product trademark or copyright guides from the Product Vendor and reference those guides in your Pull Request.

Plain Language

Contributors should consider the audience when submitting content. Plain language benefits a broad audience. Review your proposed content for use of acronyms and specialized jargon before submitting.

Roadmap

The expected roadmap for this guide:

April 2016 - September 2016

  1. Migration of FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guides from PDFs to digital, reworking into more focused, user friendly plays

November 2017 - March 2018

  1. Updates to Federation guide
  2. Alignment with 800-63-3
  3. Alignment with mission use cases

How to Contribute

For information on how to contribute to the site, review Contributing. The source repository exists here.

Direct changes and line edits to the content may be submitted through a pull request by clicking 'Edit this page'. You do not need to install any software to submit content. You can use GitHub's in-browser editor to edit files and submit a pull request for your changes to be merged.

Public domain

This project is in the worldwide public domain.

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.

Special Thanks

This repository is based on GitHub Pages and Jekyll templates.

Special thanks to the teams at 18F, 18F Pages, and US Digital Services Playbooks for their open and transparent model which benefits citizens, government, and technology.