Interoperability

Capacity of different systems to cooperate with each other:

  • Communicate, understand, accept

Syntactic interoperability

  • They can communicate

  • They can parse the communication items

Semantic interoperability

  • They can understand each other

  • What is sent is what is understood

Interoperability in identity management

Interoperability between a large group of stakeholders involved in identity management

  • Identity owners

  • Identity providers

  • Identity consumers

Vital for operation of wide scale distributed environments

  • Across regions, across nations

Last updated