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October 09, 2006
Liberty Alliance Promises Security, Interoperability for SOA
Liberty Alliance announced the release of the final version of ID-WSF 2.0, the industry's most complete framework for building and managing privacy-respecting, secure and interoperable Web services and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
The final release of ID-WSF
2.0 now includes additional support for open industry standards to
allow developers, enterprises and system integrators to build
successful Web services faster based on the widely deployed and proven
interoperable Liberty Web Services standards. This release also
includes Liberty People Service, a user-centric Web services protocol
for managing a user's relationship network across social applications
in a trusted, secure and privacy-respecting manner.
Liberty
Alliance is the only global identity organization that develops
identity standards with the input of all members and based on well
defined business requirements and use cases. Liberty's process of
clearly identifying business requirements prior to developing any
standard ensures that Liberty Web Services meet the real world identity
management needs of deploying organizations and users worldwide.
Liberty Alliance is also releasing the use cases and market
requirements used to develop the ID-WSF 2.0 Web services standards.
These documents are available for public viewing and download at www.projectliberty.org/liberty/strategic_initiatives/requirements.
"Liberty's
ID-WSF 2.0 provides organizations with a complete framework for more
easily deploying privacy-respecting and secure Web services and SOAs,"
said George Goodman, president of the Liberty Alliance management board,
and director of the Platform Capabilities Lab at Intel. "With Liberty
Web Services deployed worldwide, organizations can trust that open
identity management solutions based on ID-WSF 2.0 will deliver real
business value today and over the long-term."
Deployers of
Liberty Web services include American Express, AOL, France Telecom,
Nokia and Vodafone, as well as government organizations in Finland,
France and Norway. These real world deployments are helping to drive
the over 1 billion Liberty-enabled identities and devices Liberty
Alliance is expecting this year. A list of some of the organizations
deploying Liberty's open identity specifications is available at http://projectliberty.org/liberty/adoption. Highlights of functionality included in this release of ID-WSF 2.0 include:
- Safer Social Networking
This release of ID-WSF 2.0 includes Liberty People Service, the industry's first non-proprietary user-centric Web services framework to allow consumers and organizations to manage social and enterprise applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, e-mail, photo sharing and instant messaging in a federated social network. With Liberty People Service individuals can easily store, maintain and categorize online relationships with friends, family and colleagues so that other socially-aware Web services applications can leverage identity information based on the consent and privacy controls established by the user. These user-centric features provide consumers and enterprise users with greater protection against phishing, pharming, vishing and other forms of online identity theft. More information about Liberty People Service is available at www.project-liberty.org/liberty/resource_center/faq/people_service__1.
- SOA Ready
Liberty's secure and privacy-respecting ID-WSF 2.0 provides organizations with a complete framework for deploying and managing interoperable, non-proprietary and trusted SOAs. ID-WSF 2.0 is available to all organizations looking to implement responsive, flexible and secure identity-based SOAs based on the proven interoperability of Liberty Web Services. ID-WSF 2.0 specifications provide an "out-of-the-box" framework for jump-starting SOA implementations with user-centric controls, security and trust at the application level and privacy features at the core.
- Proven Interoperability
Liberty Alliance is the only global identity organization that tests vendor products for true interoperability of identity standards. Nearly 75 products from vendors around the world have now passed testing since Liberty launched its Liberty Interoperable program in 2003. Gemalto, Epok, HP, Sun Microsystems, Novell, Nokia, NTT and Symlabs have passed testing for Liberty Web Services interoperability. Liberty Alliance is also announcing the first testing event for IDWSF-2.0 interoperability scheduled to take place in France during the week of December 4th. This event is open to Liberty and non-Liberty members with more information and registration available at http://projectliberty.org/liberty/liberty_interoperable/events.
- Privacy, Security and Trust for Every Transaction
ID-WSF 2.0 has been developed to provide non-proprietary, user-centric identity management capabilities in support of all identity-based online transactions. From basic authentication requirements to enterprise, financial and government applications demanding the highest degree of interoperability, privacy and security protection, IDWSF-2.0 delivers consumers, businesses, citizens and governments the industry's most comprehensive framework for conducting safer Web services transactions.
- Convergence of Web Service Standards
Liberty Alliance regularly incorporates truly open standards into its identity specifications based on industry and member requirements for open and interoperable identity solutions. With the final release of IDW-SF 2.0, Liberty Web Services now offers increased support for SAML 2.0 to allow SAML 2.0 assertions to be used as security tokens; incorporates WS-Addressing to enable asynchronous messaging capabilities; features new subscription and notification capabilities to allow a push-model for attribute sharing; and supports identity tokens to provide a structured mechanism to refer to a user inside the network.
- An Open Cross-Industry Framework for Growth
ID-WSF 2.0 is a complete and flexible framework designed to deliver organizations of all sizes real value in interoperable identity management solutions. In addition to the release of Liberty People Service, Liberty Alliance members work to continuously increase Web services functionality with specifications that build on the security and privacy capabilities of ID-WSF 2.0. These open interface specifications include work in support of Directory Access Protocols, Contact Book, Geo-location, Presence and Mobile Messaging Web services applications.
"The final release of ID-WSF 2.0 provides
consumers with unmatched user-centric controls for online privacy and
security protection and enterprises with new opportunities for
deploying more successful identity-based SOAs," said Carolina
Canales-Valenzuela, co-chair of the Liberty Alliance Technology Expert
Group, and senior systems manager at Ericsson. "ID-WSF 2.0 has been
developed based on well defined business requirements to ensure
organizations of all sizes can quickly realize the privacy and security
benefits of Liberty Web Services."
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