Company XYZ provides cable television service to several regional areas. They are currently installing fiber-tothe-home in many areas with hopes of also providing telephone and Internet services. The telephone and
Internet services portions of the company will each be separate subsidiaries of the parent company. The board
of directors wishes to keep the subsidiaries separate from the parent company. However all three companies
must share customer data for the purposes of accounting, billing, and customer authentication. The solution
must use open standards, and be simple and seamless for customers, while only sharing minimal data between
the companies. Which of the following solutions is BEST suited for this scenario?

A.
The companies should federate, with the parent becoming the SP, and the subsidiaries becoming an IdP.

B.
The companies should federate, with the parent becoming the IdP, and the subsidiaries becoming an SSP.

C.
The companies should federate, with the parent becoming the IdP, and the subsidiaries becoming an SP.

D.
The companies should federate, with the parent becoming the ASP, and the subsidiaries becoming an IdP.