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Liberty Alliance Certifies SAML Interoperability
- By ADT Staff
- August 16, 2005
The Liberty Alliance Project, a global consortium for open federated identity
standards and identity-based Web services, announced that products from eight
companies passed testing at Liberty’s most recent interoperability conformance
event. These companies demonstrated interoperability of products and solutions
that incorporate Liberty’s Identity Web Services (1.1) and SAML 2.0 OASIS
Standard specifications.
Liberty Alliance awarded passing marks to Electronics & Telecommunications
Research Institute, Ericsson, Novell, Oracle, Reactivity, Sun Microsystems,
Symlabs and Trustgenix.
“It’s all about the reality of products that work together in actual
deployments,” says Earl Perkins, vice president, Gartner. “Formal
testing programs that prove products from different vendors can work together
with a new standard are important. Vendors that pass the tests are showing due
diligence in meeting industry requirements for interoperability, and products
that use OASIS interoperability standard SAML 2.0 are fulfilling one of those
key requirements.”
Liberty tested SAML 2.0 products to ensure they exercise the Liberty protocols
that will be used in real-world deployments, the group says. Organizations can
trust that products passing Liberty interoperability testing will interoperate
from day one and long term. This reduces costs, shortens deployment cycles and
makes implementing open identity solutions easier, Liberty says.
“Liberty’s latest testing program marks a significant advancement
for organizations looking to deploy open identity solutions based on SAML 2.0
specifications,” says Roger Sullivan, chair of the Liberty Alliance conformance
program and VP of business development for Oracle’s Identity Management
solutions. “As organizations increasingly migrate to SAML 2.0 technologies,
they can count on products that have passed Liberty’s interoperability
testing for faster and more successful deployments.”
The Liberty Interoperable testing program requires each company to complete
successfully tests against scripts and scenarios prepared by Liberty Alliance
and published on Liberty’s Web
site. As part of the testing, companies must demonstrate interoperability
with at least two other randomly selected participants. The program requires
repeated operation of the Liberty specifications core features in many combinations
and sequences and in different roles and contexts common to real-world deployments.