Liberty Alliance Project to provide single network identity on the InternetPalo Alto 26 September 2001 The Liberty Alliance Project wants to establish business and technology solutions to provide an open, federated solution for network identity. The charter members of the Liberty Alliance Project, representing a billion names across customers, business partners and employees, intend to create an open, federated solution for network identity - enabling ubiquitous single sign-on across multiple web sites, and eventually across multiple devices connected to the Internet. The service will provide distributed authentication, and open, platform-neutral network authorization, from any device connected to the Internet, from traditional desktop computers and cellular phones to credit cards, automobiles and point-of-sale terminals.
As a new charter member, Sun Microsystems represents its extensive developer community, customers and employees and will play a role in developing
products based on the new standards.
Sun has experience in cultivating an open developer community through
dedicating many of its
best minds to the effort. As such, the company is committed to endorsing
and deploying Liberty-compliant technologies and implementations the
industry can use widely while being part of a collaborative effort to
create common standards. At a later date Sun
anticipates announcing Liberty-enabled products of its own.
Any organization interested in joining the Liberty Alliance Project
should visit http://www.projectliberty.org for additional information.
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