Liberty Alliance Version 1.1 Specification suite is comprised of the following documents:

• liberty-architecture-overview-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Architecture Overview is a non-normative architectural overview to Liberty that describes the protocols and offers policy and security guidance.
• liberty-architecture-protocols-schema-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Protocols and Schema Specification defines the abstract protocols and XML schemas for Liberty.
• liberty-architecture-bindings-profiles-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Bindings and Profiles Specification defines concrete transport bindings and usage profiles for the abstract Liberty protocols.
• liberty-architecture-authentication-context-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Authentication Context Specification defines the authentication context schema, which is used to communicate information about an authentication event.
• liberty-architecture-tech-glossary-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Glossary contains Liberty terminology.
• liberty-architecture-implementation-guidelines-v1.1.pdf: Liberty Architecture Implementation Guidelines provides non-normative implementation and deployment guidance for the various entities in a Liberty-enabled network.

Additionally, the XML Schema Definitions are provided:

• liberty-architecture-protocols-schema-v1.1.xsd: The XSD that accompanies the Liberty Protocols and Schema Specification
• liberty-architecture-authentication-context-v1.1.xsd: The XSD that accompanies the Liberty Authentication Context Specification

liberty-specifications-v1.1 (4.14 Mb)contains the complete specification set

Japanese Translations

liberty-architecture-overview-v1.1-JP.pdf: Japanese Liberty Architecture Overview is a non-normative architectural overview to Liberty that describes the protocols and offers policy and security guidance.

liberty-architecture-tech-glossary-v1.1-JP.pdf: Japanese Liberty Glossary contains Liberty terminology.

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References
OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) for work on SAML
W3C (www.w3.org) for work on SOAP

The Liberty Alliance Version 1.0 Specification suite is available for download from the Specs Archive.