Glossary

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ACCESS NYC: An example of NYC.ID-integrated public facing application. Visit ACCESS NYC

AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Learn more about AJAX

Application Header: Displays the NYC.gov logo and your application name. Learn more

Application Brand Banner—Displays your application logo. Learn more

 

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Base64: Learn about Base64

 

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CAPTCHA: A challenge-response test, which determines if a user is human. Learn more about CAPTCHA.

Cityshare: The City's intranet. Go to Cityshare.

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DoITT Application Development (AppDev) Team: The DoITT team responsible for the migrating NYC.ID-integrated applications from NetIQ to Gigya.

DoITT CAPTCHA Service: A DoITT-hosted, wrapped implementation of Google reCAPTCHA v2

DoITT Identity and Access Services (IAS) Team, Formerly Enterprise Directory Services (EDS): The DoITT team responsible for the NYC Employees IdP.

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e-Lobbyist: An example of NYC.ID-integrated public facing application. Visit e-Lobbyist

 

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Federated Identity Providers: Social media identity providers (i.e., Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Yahoo), plus the NYC Employees identity provider

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JavaScript Object Notation (JSON): Learn about JSON

 

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Locale: Learn about locales

 

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My Desk: The CityWide Service Desk’s online portal. Go to My Desk.

 

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Native Mobile Application ("app"): A smartphone application that is coded in a specific programming language, such as Objective C for iOS and Java for Android operating systems.

NYC.gov Privacy Policy: Read the policy

NYC.gov Terms of Use: Read the NYC.gov terms of use

NYC.ID Terms of Use: Visit the Create Account page to read the current NYC.ID Terms of Use

NYC.ID Identity Provider (IdP): The City's SAML 2.0 identity provider

NYC.ID Service Account: The username and password used to authenticate with the NYC.ID Web Services

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RESTful: Learn about REST

 

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SAML Assertion: An XML document containing a packet of security information

SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IDP): An identity provider that complies with the SAML 2.0 specification.

SAML 2.0 Single Logout: When a user logs out of a NYC.ID-integrated application, he or she is logged out of all applications that share the same session with the IdP.

Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0): The version of SAML used for NYC.ID authentication. Learn more about SAML 2.0

Service Provider (SP): A SAML 2.0 service provider, typically your application

Social Media Providers: Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Yahoo identity providers

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Webtrends on Demand: A program that provides web stats. Learn about Webtrends on Demand

 

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