Architecture Bricks and the NIH Federated Identity

The National Institutes of Health Enteprise Architecture Team uses "bricks" to categorize baseline, tactical, emergent, and strategic technologies. The bricks represent standards and approved products in use by NIH

Applying the "brick" concept to Identity Management, we get the construct that follows ->

Description
The goal of NIH's Federated Identity service is to give a person the ability to use the same user name, password, or other personal identification to access multiple applications or data sources securely and seamlessly by relying on the identity provider's authentication process rather than NIH's. Federated Identity service is enabled through the use of open industry standards and/or openly published specifications.

Please view the NIH Federation Identity - Identity Provider Brick below:

Reference: http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/ArchLib/AT/TA/NIHFederatedIdentityIdentityProvider.htm

What is a Brick?: http://enterprisearchitecture.nih.gov/ArchLib/Guide/WhatIsBrick.htm