Although Tax and Revenue Administration is only one small division within the Department of Alberta Revenue, which itself is only one of 22 departments in the Government of Alberta, it is proving that big things can come in small packages.
With the intention to bring what it calls the core aspects of identity management into one suite of products, on Monday Computer Associates Inc. unveiled plans for its eTrust Identity and Access Management Suite
There are three vital parts to the open standards underlying Web services security. There's authentication, which uses Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to exchange information about a particular user. There's authorization, which grants access control via Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML). And, finally, there's the administration layer now managed through the use of Service Provisioning Markup Language, or SPML.