Liberty Sets Stage for Circle of Trust.

This article reports on the guidelines issued by Liberty Alliance Project, an industry consortium working on standards for federated identity systems, as of October 2005. Companies must concur on what types of information will be shared--and adopt a standardized set of security and privacy measures--to achieve what the liberty Alliance calls a circle of trust among the organizations involved. The 15-page document was created through Liberty Alliance's Public Policy Expert Group (PPEG), which includes members from the Business Industry Political Action Committee, the U.S. General Services Administration, plus Oracle and Sun Microsystems.