Liberty Alliance Releases Client-Side ID Specs

Liberty Alliance, a global identity management group, released a series of specifications for corporate users and consumers to help control identity information on a range of devices including laptops and printers.

The consortium, which is made up of vendors, businesses and government entities, said its Advanced Client standards will help users manage a number of identity-based transactions from devices, such as gaining access to Web services.

The consortium's Advanced Client, the third stage of its client-focused identity management work, includes standards and technologies users can apply to manage these transactions. Users will be able to keep identity information on the device itself and manage that information even when that device is offline.Liberty Alliance's Technology Expert Group (TEG) has been working on a number of standards and technologies for client devices in an effort to construct an end-to-end identity management framework. The group says the next edition of the Advanced Client specification, which will be released later this year, will include more provisioning functionality and more extensive reporting capabilities.