!!! Overview
The Liberty Alliance is an industry consortium defining standards for federated identity – including enabling simplified sign-on through [federated network identification|Federated Identity Management] using current and emerging network access devices, as well as supporting and promoting permission-based attribute sharing to enable a user's choice and control over the use and disclosure of his/her [personal identification|PII].

The group was originally conceived and named by Jeff Veis, at [Sun Microsystems] in [2002|Year 2002] 


[{$pagename}] defined:
* [Identity Federation Framework] ([ID-FF]) on the base provided by [SAML] V1.x.
* [Identity Governance Framework] 
* [Openliberty.org]
* [Identity Assurance Framework]
* [Identity Web Services Framework]


Liberty's Identity Web Services Framework (IDWSF), a platform for securing identity-based web services, continues to evolve within the Liberty Alliance. Liberty ID-WSF uses [SAML] assertions as the security [token] format by which the [authentication] and [authorization] information associated with the various web service actors are communicated amongst them.

[Kantara Initiative] took over the work of the [{$pagename}] in [2009|Year 2009]


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