The Liberty Alliance Project will develop a set of identity interface specifications (ID-SIS) that build on earlier work, linking end-users’ personal identities through web services.
This, the third phase of Liberty’s work, will deliver a contact book, geo-location and personal SIS, during the next six to nine months. Additional work under consideration for phase three includes SIS serving vertical markets, such as healthcare.
Outlining phase three, Liberty also announced the completion of phase two of its work, initiated in April, and named five organizations – Vodafone [VOD], Sun Microsystems Inc [SUNW], identity management software vendor Phaos Technology Corp, network provider PingID Network Inc and Trustgenix Inc – who have committed to adopt phase two in products or services.
Phase two saw Liberty deliver its first ID-SIS, a standard template to define personal registration information and standard template to define similar data but for employees.
The Personal Profile includes attributes such as how an individual may be contacted while Employee Profile features attributes like whether the person works full time or part time.
SIS are part of Liberty’s Identity Web Services Framework and use SAML, discovery services to detail where a service provider may go to find-out a person’s contact information, and interaction services to ask a person in real time for consent in releasing their personal information. The Web Services Framework also uses WS-Security and SOAP.
WS-Security originated from IBM Corp [IBM] and Microsoft Corp [MSFT], both non-Liberty members. There is competition between Liberty and work from IBM and Microsoft, whose WS-roadmap tackles elements such as federated identity for users of web services.
This article was based on material originally published by ComputerWire.
