The Liberty Alliance published its “Phase 2” specifications aimed at providing an open, standards-based way of delivering identity-based web services within and between trusted domains. The Liberty specifications, which build upon existing open industry standards such as SAML, SOAP, XML and WS-Security, are designed to enable individual implementers to choose the privacy policies and data management options that best fit their region, industry and company policy.
The specifications are now available for download to be used for Liberty-enabled product and service development.
Separately, the Liberty Alliance Project announced a new certification program today that will validate products and services that have successfully implemented its standards for federated network identity. The Liberty Alliance interoperability certification program will award usage of the Liberty Alliance interoperability logo to products and services that prove compatible with its standards.
http://www.projectliberty.org
- The Liberty Alliance was formed in September 2001 by thirty-three major companies in the networking, communications, finance and travel industries with the goal of creating a ubiquitous, single network sign-on that ensures decentralized authentication and open authorization from any device connected to the Internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones to TVs, automobiles, credit cards and point-of-sale terminals.