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January 30, 2009

New Telecom SIG Includes Ericsson, NEC, Neustar, Orange, Symlabs and TeliaSonera

Liberty Alliance hsa launched its public Liberty Alliance Telecom Special Interest Group, a global identity community to build a reliable Internet for businesses, governments and people.
 
This public group will assist in the development of the next generation of Interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled telecom applications.
 
The SIG comprises of representatives from Ericsson, NEC, Neustar, Orange, Symlabs and TeliaSonera (News - Alert). It is the tenth Liberty Alliance special interest group which is open for both Liberty Alliance members and non-members. The SIG is expected to develop ways and means for managing identity-information and identity-enables transactions and services in the telecom sector.
 
Liberty SAML 2.0 Federation and Liberty Identity Web Services are validated and preferred both in the telecom and service provider industries. SAML 2.0 has become a federation standard across most industries, according to Gartner (News - Alert) Group.
 
Also the Burton Group is advising organizations to employ Liberty Alliance ID-WSF 2.0 specifications while they are implementing federation. The SIG is striving to make identity-enabled enterprise and Web 2.0 applications popular in the telecom sector. This will be based on Liberty Alliance standards and the Liberty Identity Governance and Identity Assurance Frameworks.
 
Jose Luis Mariz, strategic product manager at Ericsson (News - Alert) and chair of the Liberty Alliance Telecom SIG, said, “The formation of the Telecom SIG provides organizations and individuals in the telecom industry with an important public forum for collaboratively fostering the next generation of interoperable, secure and privacy-respecting identity-enabled applications for businesses and people.”
 
Liberty Alliance Telecom SIG members are working with other group members and standards for specifically identifying and eliminating technology and policy issues. Such issues arise when telecom operators have to deal with wide-scale deployment of interoperable identity-enabled applications and services.
 
The Liberty Alliance Telecom SIG is one among several industry-specific SIGs which are formed by the collective efforts of market leaders. These companies are active in Liberty Alliance like healthcare and eGovernment and make sure that specialized identity management and services requirements are satisfied by emerging technology and policy frameworks.
 
 

Shamila Janakiraman is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Shamila’s articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Tim Gray
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