Three Liberty standards

Although the Liberty Alliance has turned over one of its standards, Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework 1.2, to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, the alliance continues work on Identity Web Services Framework 1.0 and Identity Service Interface Specifications.

Although the Liberty Alliance has turned over one of its standards, Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework 1.2, to the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, the alliance continues work on Identity Web Services Framework 1.0 and Identity Service Interface Specifications.

ID-FF 1.2 establishes federated, multilateral trust relationships across Liberty-enabled identity domains, known as circles of trust, while enabling identity federation, account linking and single sign-on with privacy protection. This standard has become the basis of OASIS’ next major federated ID management standard, Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0.

ID-WSF 1.0 enforces detailed policy controls through permission-based attribute sharing that governs exchange of identity information across Liberty ID-FF 1.2-based circles of trust.

ID-SIS 1.0 expands the range of application services that can use Liberty ID-FF 1.2 and ID-WSF 1.0. To date, Liberty has published two ID-SIS 1.0 specifications: the ID-SIS Personal Profile Service and the ID-SIS Employee Profile Service. The alliance will work with other groups to extend the core identity schemas defined under those groups’ standards, such as standards for contact books, geolocation, presence, calendaring, wallet and other network services. These schema/protocol extensions will let various application environments leverage core Liberty features, including account linking, single sign-on, global session logout and permission-based attribute sharing.

– James Kobielus