Security Assertion Markup Language

SAML is a dialect of eXtensible Markup Language (XML). Its main purpose is to provide a method so that a user can log on once for (associated but separate) Web sites and possibly other 'services'.
SAML is part of the underpinning ideas of [[http://shibboleth.internet2.edu/|Shibboleth]] and now part of the [[http://www.oasis-open.org/|OASIS]] standards.

For more information, see [[http://www.opensaml.org/|OpenSAML]].