Services/Identity/Spec: Difference between revisions

;relying party

:see audience.

;identity assertion

:A cryptographically signed document which proves to a particular audience that the current browser session is associated with an identity.

;primary authority

:The service from whom a user acquires an email address. The primary authority may create assertions about any identity in their domain.

;secondary authority

:A 3rd party service trusted by a relying party to issue identity assertions in lieu of a service which has not yet deployed infrastructure to issue identity assertions on their own.