Liberty said it has submitted version 1.1 of its specification to the Organization for Advancement of Structured Information Standards for consideration to be included in the next version of SAML, the security assertions markup language.
SAML 1.0, a spec describing authorization and authentication in web services, was incorporated in Liberty’s Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF) last year. Liberty made extensions to that spec in 1.1 and is now submitting them for inclusion in SAML 2.0.
Microsoft and IBM, the two major software developers that have so far declined to join the 160-member Liberty project, are working on a federated identity management spec based on the WS-Security spec, also an OASIS standard.
Source: Computerwire
