Liberty Alliance – a group formed by Ericsson (ERIC), NEC Corp., NeuStar Inc. (NSR), Orange (FTE), Symlabs Inc. and TeliaSonera (TLS.VX) – has established a new effort to help telecom operators identify and overcome technology and policy challenges relative to wide scale, identity-enabled enterprise and Web 2.0 applications and services.
The goal of the new group, called Liberty Alliance Telecom Special Interest Group, is “to develop best practices for managing identity-information and identity-enabled transactions and services in the telecom and service provider industries, and to advance identity-enabled telecom applications based on Liberty SAML 2.0 Federation, Liberty Identity Web Services (ID-WSF 2.0) and the policy-based Liberty Identity Assurance Framework.” Liberty SAML 2.0 Federation and Liberty Identity Web Services have, according to the group and Gartner, become the de facto federation standard across industries.
“The formation of the Telecom SIG provides organizations and individuals in the telecom industry with an important public forum for collaboratively fostering the next generation of interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled applications for businesses and people,” said Jose Luis Mariz, strategic product manager at Ericsson and chair of the Liberty Alliance Telecom SIG.
