Because the importance of identity has been elevated across the board, Liberty Alliance, a global consortium for open federated identity standards and identity-based Web services, has released ID-WSF 2.0, the second version of its Web services framework specifications.
Version 2.0 includes support for SAML 2.0, the most current federation standard in the industry, according to Gerry Gebel, senior analyst with the Burton Group, Salt Lake City. This added support, he continues, gives people who have implemented ID-FF, Liberty Alliance's own identity federation framework, a migration path to SAML 2.0.
The new release, Gebel adds, shows continued progress and continued development of this set of specifications. "It offers Web services implementers a choice of security specifications to implement instead of using something proprietary or waiting for all of the ws-* standards to complete," he notes.
