The Liberty Alliance Project is a consortium of industry leading business and technology companies that have banded together to create an open standard specification for securely sharing user identity information. In today's world most users have unique user ids and passwords for each of the services they interact with on the enterprise network or internet. The specification offers a solution to the problem by suggesting that users can choose to link their various accounts together facilitating single sign-on and global logout. There are currently a few vendors offering proprietary solutions in this space. The largest of these is Microsoft .NET Passport. There appears to be fierce competition between members of the consortium and Microsoft. The Liberty specification is relatively new and, it will take some time to see whether the industry will start building solutions based on the specification.
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