The future is bright – setting up Tokens that are visible across ‘The Cloud’ is already done!
http://sts.labs.live.com – shared token
http://relay.labs.live.com – shared relay
services
We get access to these services typically through WCF and various channels and behavior
options going fwd.
What this means for us – less code and if your client and server application/service are
behind firewalls at different locations.
net.relay://…..
So I think in ‘yesterdays terms’ we called the relay service – http tunnelling
With these services we get Policy and Metadata exchange such that if any settings
change on the service, then the client is automatically re-authed and prompted for
Tokens.
Go and check out the labs here – very cool stuff!