October 26, 2004

IBM announces its membership in the Liberty Alliance, an identity management group working to define standards around federated identity and Web services. Microsoft said it has no plans to join.

The Liberty Alliance Project was formed in September 2001 to develop open standards for federated network identity management and identity-based services. Its goals are to ensure interoperability, support privacy, and promote adoption of its specifications, guidelines and best practices.

The Alliance is made up of more than 150 members, representing a worldwide cross-section of organizations ranging from educational institutions and government organizations, to service providers and financial institutions, to technology vendors and wireless providers.

The Liberty Alliance Project develops open specifications and business guidelines but does not deliver specific products or services.

The Alliance's goal is to create specifications that incorporate, leverage and support other industry standards, creating a means for its members and other organizations to build products and services that will interoperate, lower cost of ownership and promote secure federated identity management.

The Liberty Alliance is a group of technology providers and corporations, such as Fidelity and American Express, that is developing a set of industry standards for verifying a person's identity when he or she accesses Web sites. The consortium, which was founded by Sun Microsystems and others in 2001, has over 150 members now.

IBM will also become a board member of Liberty and seek to find a common ground between the Liberty standards and an overlapping set of specifications that IBM backs, according to the company. The computing giant's Tivoli Access Manager security software already complies with Liberty. IBM added the support earlier this year.

Until then, IBM had stayed clear of Liberty. The company last year was a co-author of another technical specification, called WS-Federation, which was designed for many of the same tasks as the Liberty standards, such as verifying a network ID across several Web sites at once.

Source: Web Services.org

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