Objectives of the Liberty Alliance Project Specifications

The specifications developed by the Liberty Alliance Project enable individuals and organizations to securely conduct network transactions. The main objectives include:

• Serve as open standards for federated identity management and web services.

• Support and promote permission-based sharing of personal identity attributes.

• Provide a standard for SSO that includes decentralized authentication and authorization for multiple providers.

• Create an open network identity infrastructure that supports all current and emerging user agents (also referred to as browsers or wireless browsers).

• Enable consumers to protect their network identity information.