Standards Organizations

Liberty Alliance's mature specifications are heavily referenced by other standards organizations in the specifications they are developing. Here we collect information about who's doing what with Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services.

In the chart below, please note that "Liberty Federation" is used to indicate any of the standards in the Liberty Federation family of specs (ID-FF 1.x, 2.0 and SAML 2.0).

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Organization	Description	Technology
3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project	3GPP Generic User Profile (GUP); Stage 3; Network references ID-WSF 1.0/1.1 3GPP TR 33.980 V7.0.0 - Interworking of Liberty Alliance Identity Federation Framework (ID-FF), Identity Web Services Framework (ID-WSF) and Generic Authentication Architecture (GAA)	Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services
Resources: •  3GPP Generic User Profile (GUP); Stage 3; Network  > •  3GPP Generic User Profile (GUP); Stage 3; Network  > •  Feature: Liberty Alliance and 3GPP Security Interworking > •  3GPP TR 33.980 V7.0.0 Zip  >
ETSI / TV-Anytime	TV-Anytime Phase 2 profiles of ID-WSF 1.0 incorporated into ETSI work	Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services
Resources: •  TV Anytime Set of Specifications >
Financial Services Tech Consortium	Completed a business review using SAML and Liberty and measured their usefulness against financial use cases and scenarios	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  Financial Services Tech Consortium >
ITU-T	SAML 2.0 approved as ITU standard	Liberty Federation
Resources: •   ITU-T Study Group 17 >
OASIS WS-Security SAML Token Profile	Defines how SAML assertions can be used as security tokens in a web service message	Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services
Resources: •  OASIS Web Services Security (WSS) TC >
OASIS XACML	Profiles how SAML 2.0 messages can carry XACML policies, queries, and authorization decisions.	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  SAML 2.0 profile of XACML v2.0 >
OASIS XRI: trusted resolution	The iSSO protocol under development at XDI.org uses XRI resolution to bootstrap usage of SAML 2.0 authentication assertions for cross-domain single sign-on.	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  OASIS Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) TC >
OMA Open Mobile Alliance	OMA Web Services V1.0 - refers to ID-FF 1.1 OMA Web Services Network Identity V1.0 - refers to ID-FF 1.2 and ID-WSF 1.1	Federation and Web Services
Resources: •  OMA Web Services Network Identity V1.0 Approved Enabler > •  OMA Web Services V1.0  >
Shibboleth	Shibboleth standard is built on SAML and is part of convergence in SAML 2.0	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  Shibboleth Website >
SIP	Uses SAML Assertions to create communication with SIP endpoints	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  Draft of SIP-SAML >
XDI.org i-SSO	SAML-based authN and new SAML profile. Not a traditional SDO	Liberty Federation
Resources: •  XDI.org i-SSO >