In a federated identity arrangement using a trusted third-party model, who is the identity provider and who is the relying party?

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In a trusted third-party model of federation, each member organization outsources the review and approval task to a third party they all trust. This makes the third party the identifier (it issues and manages identities for all users in all organizations in the federation), and the various member organizations are the relying parties (the resource providers that share resources based on approval from the third party).

In a Federated Identity Arrangement Using a Trusted Third-Party Model