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Liberty Alliance Project White Papers

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Whitepapers

The Liberty Alliance Project and its members have written several white papers to illustrate the technical and business aspects of the Liberty Alliance specification suites.

Featured Whitepaper

Liberty ID-WSF - a Web Services Framework (PDF)
May 2004

The technology used in web services can allow businesses to offer new functionality to their partners and customers, ease existing relationships between disparate computing systems, and provide common interfaces to systems, enabling composite computing systems to be built that span geographical locations and business functions.

This overview introduces the components of the Liberty ID-WSF specification suite, and shows how these are used to deliver some of the benefits described above.

Liberty Alliance Whitepapers

Liberty Alliance White Paper: Benefits of Federated Identity to Government (PDF)
March 2004
Provides an overview of the Liberty Alliance Benefits of Federated Identity to Government.

Liberty Alliance White Paper on Liberty Protocol and Identity Theft (PDF)
February 2004
Provides an overview of the Liberty Alliance protocol regarding Identity Theft.

Liberty Alliance Privacy and Security Best Practices (PDF)
November 2003
Highlights certain national privacy laws, fair information practices and implementation guidance for organizations using the Liberty Alliance specifications. A French translation of this document is also available.

Privacy Preference Expression Languages White Paper (PDF)
November 2003
Gives a high-level example of how privacy preferences can be handled using a multi-leveled policy approach in the communication between a Service Provider and Web Services Provider.

Liberty Alliance & WS-Federation: A Comparative Overview
October 2003
Provides a brief overview of the Liberty Alliance's federated network identity management architecture.

Business Benefits of Federated Identity
April 2003
Serves business audiences and technology strategists who want a foundational understanding of identity and a high-level overview that contrasts the Liberty Alliance specifications and the proposed WS-Federation draft technology.

Liberty Alliance Identity Architecture
March 2003
This paper provides a brief overview of the Liberty Alliance's federated network identity management architecture.

Identity Systems and Liberty Specification Version 1.1 Interoperability
February 2003
This white paper seeks to address some of the emerging Identity Management technical approaches and how the latest version of Liberty Alliance Project specifications can co-exist with these other technical approaches.