Johannesburg, 17 Jul 2002
Sun Microsystems, a founding member of the Liberty Alliance, has announced its support of the consortium's Liberty version 1.0 specifications for federated network identification.
This follows on the Liberty Alliance's announcement on 15 July that the first set of Network Identity specifications are now available to the general public.
Liberty version 1.0 is being introduced less than a year after the cross-industry consortium was formed.
Sun will release its end-to-end Network Identity technology and services solutions later this week. These solutions will illustrate how the Solaris Operating Environment (OE), Java and the Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) will integrate into Liberty version 1.0.
Says Stefano Mattiello, managing director of Sun Microsystems SA: "Sun was the catalyst for the formation of the Liberty Alliance back in September 2001. As a founding member we are extremely pleased to see the introduction of the first specifications in such as short time period.
"Identity is not a technology issue but a business policy issue. The Liberty Alliance represents 65 charter members, billions of Network Identities and has delivered a comprehensive, non-proprietary standard allowing companies to offer single sign-on without compromising their customers or their business."
Alliance charter members include MasterCard, Visa, HP, Sony, GM, Nokia, AOL, Time Warner, NTT DoCoMo, France Telecom, Cisco and United Airlines and Sun Microsystems.
"Less than a year after the Liberty Alliance was formed, we've made great progress in delivering a secure, technologically agnostic identification infrastructure that can support a wide range of identity products and network access devices," says Eric Dean, chairman of the Liberty Alliance and CIO of United Airlines."
"Sun's support and implementation of the Liberty Alliance specifications is a testament to the ease-of-implementation, commercial value and significant need for an interoperable network identification solution," he says.
Already more than 40 companies have pledged to support the Liberty Alliance version 1.0 specifications, which will focus on interoperability between systems to enable opt-in account linking and simplified sign-on functionality.
The Liberty Alliance has already released details on its next set of identity specifications currently in the early stages of development. For more information, go to www.projectliberty.org.
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