The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity and Web services standards, today announced the public release of the latest version of ID-WSF 2.0, Liberty's open framework for identity-based Web services. With this release, Liberty Web Services now incorporates additional support for open standards including SAML 2.0 and WS-Addressing, as well as a new social network layer for allowing consumers and enterprise users to manage a variety of social applications. Today's news marks the second of three updates Liberty will make to the ID-WSF 2.0 framework.
The Liberty ID-WSF People Service(TM), a key component in this latest release, is the industry's first comprehensive platform for managing social information within an open federated network environment. People Service allows consumers and enterprise users to manage social applications such as bookmarks, blogging, calendars, photo sharing and instant messaging from a common layer within the ID-WSF 2.0 framework. Liberty People Service has been developed to allow individuals to easily store, maintain, and categorize online relationships so that other socially-aware Web services applications can leverage information based on the consent and privacy controls established by a user in the federated social network.
