Overview#

The Liberty Alliance is an industry consortium defining standards for federated identity – including enabling simplified sign-on through federated network identification 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.

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

Liberty Alliance 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 Liberty Alliance in 2009

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Bandit-project.org
• Circle of Trust
• Endpoint
• Endpoint Reference
• Identity Assurance Framework
• Identity Federation Framework
• Identity Governance Framework
• Identity Web Services Framework
• Openliberty.org
• SAML

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• [#1] - Liberty_Alliance - based on information obtained 2015-04-29-