Sun Releases Open Source Tool for Project Liberty

ruisantos writes "After submiting the technical specifications for the project , Sun has finally launched an open source tool for its upcoming Sun ONE Identity Server version 6.0, the news can be found on CNET news."

Re:Huh?

[arberya]

The Liberty Alliance is a group of companies helping to define the specification. Sun propsed Project Liberty as an alternative to Passport. Sun have implemented the specification in their Sun ONE range of products. You will probably see Novell implement the specification within eDirectory as they are members of the alliance as well. As for selling the idea to anyone, it is not a matter of selling it, if you look at the specs it sells itself. Devolved identity management, no single company holding identity information, like Microsoft does with Passport.

Re:Huh?

[JediTrainer]

I don't get it. Is Sun ONE the same as the Liberty Alliance?

Not quite. Sun ONE is the competitor to the Microsoft .Net framework (meaning, it's a suite of server and development applications, including the Forte suite of IDEs, compilers and your application/web servers and whatnot). Liberty Alliance seems to be competing against Microsoft Passport and all that 'secure' global user profile shtuff.

Re:Huh?

[passthecrackpipe]

Well, there is definetly a market for this kind of thing, it is just about the implementation. Basically, MS said: "give us all your data, you can trust us with it". Everybody fell over laughing, of course. That is why Hailstorm fell through.

The Liberty Alliance is saying: "We don't want your data, we just want to give you the tools".That there is a need for the concept of identity management stands beyond any doubt. How many website logins do *you* have? Exactly. However, how the respective organisation plan to hndle all the data, and plan to implement the concept is what really matters here. That is why the Liberty Alliance has a much better change of actually being used.

Of course, it is an extra kick in the face to MS that the first tool to come out is Open Source.....

Direct Link

[dica]

http://www.experimentalstuff.com/data/ipl-0.1.zip [experimentalstuff.com]

Re:Can I run my own personal identity server?

[jsergent]

Liberty version 1 is contingent on trust relationships negotiated out of band between identity provider and service provider.

Liberty version 1 doesn't make provisions for sharing personal information -- it only defines protocols for federation, single sign-on, federation termination, and logout.

See the Liberty architecture overview [projectliberty.org] (in the specs section on the Liberty web site) for more information.

Re:Version 6.0?

[chrisbw]

SunONE Identity Server 6.0 is the Netscape/iPlanet/SunONE Directory Server (LDAP directory) renamed. It's becoming more than just a directory server, since it becomes an identity and policy management server.

Chris