Seven Organizations Participate in Interoperability Scenarios to Meet
Multi-Protocol Digital Identity Management Use Case Requirements in the
Education, Enterprise and Government Sectors
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The Concordia Project, a global
cross-industry initiative formed by members of the identity community to
drive harmonization and interoperability among identity initiatives and
protocols, today announced its first interoperability event taking place at
RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco on Monday, April 7 from 9:00am -
12:30pm. The event will include FuGen Solutions, Internet2, Microsoft,
Oracle, Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs demonstrating varying
interoperability scenarios using Information Card, Liberty Alliance, and
WS-* identity protocols. Over 500 RSA Conference participants have
registered to attend the Concordia Project interoperability event to date.
The April 7 demonstrations have been developed to meet use case
scenarios presented to the Concordia Project by enterprise, education and
government organizations deploying digital identity management systems and
requiring multi-protocol interoperability of identity specifications. Since
the formal launch of the Concordia Project in June of last year, deployer
use case scenarios involving Information Card, Liberty Alliance and WS-*
identity protocols have been presented by AOL, the Government of British
Columbia, Boeing, Chevron, General Motors, Internet2, the New Zealand State
Services Commission, the US GSA and the University of Washington. Concordia
members decided collectively on what interoperability demonstrations should
be developed first based on identity management commonalities and
priorities identified by the majority of deploying organizations.
During the RSA Conference event, Concordia members will demonstrate
multi- protocol interoperability based on two of the fourteen use case
scenarios submitted to the project to date. The first includes Oracle,
Internet2, FuGen Solutions, Microsoft, Ping Identity, Sun Microsystems and
Symlabs and is characterized by a user authenticating to an identity
provider (IdP) using an InfoCard and communicating that authentication to a
relying party through either SAML 2.0 or WS-Federation protocols. The
second includes Internet2, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Symlabs
demonstrating SSO flow between chained SAML and WS-Federation protocols. A
matrix outlining all of the implementations and technologies included in
the RSA Conference interoperability event is available at
http://projectconcordia.org/index.php/RSA_IOP_Scenarios
"Members of the Concordia Project are to be commended for the work they
have done in beginning to address some of the most pressing
interoperability issues facing the global identity sector today," said
Roger Sullivan, president of the Liberty Alliance Management Board and vice
president of Oracle Identity Management. "In less than a year since the
Concordia Project was formally launched, the community is demonstrating
scenarios that begin to lay the groundwork for developing multi-protocol
identity systems that have proven to interoperate and can deliver real
business value."
In conjunction with the multi-protocol interoperability demonstrations,
Michael B. Jones of Microsoft and Eve Maler of Sun Microsystems will
provide attendees with an update on current Concordia activities. The
presentation will overview the scenarios included in the interoperability
demonstrations and discuss next steps as Concordia members work to address
use cases in additional market segments with deployer scenarios involving
Web services and Web 2.0 social networking identity protocols.
"Concordia is a key forum where the industry is demonstrating that
different Identity technologies can be used together in ways that
complement one another to meet the requirements of real customer
scenarios," said Michael B. Jones, Microsoft Director of Identity
Partnerships. "The interoperability demonstrations to be held at the RSA
Conference will show how Information Cards can be used both with SAML
Federations and WS-* Federations and how these federations can
interoperate."
The Concordia interoperability demonstrations and presentation at RSA
Conference 2008 is the fifth time Concordia members have held public
face-to- face events. The first meeting took place at RSA Conference 2007,
followed by meetings at Catalyst, Digital ID World, the Identity Open Space
(IOS) in Europe, and the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW). All members of
the global identity community are encouraged to participate in Concordia
events and public teleconferences, mail lists and the Concordia Project
wiki at http://www.projectconcordia.org
"The Concordia members participating in the RSA Conference 2008
scenarios are showing real momentum in the development of identity systems
that meet user and business requirements for multi-protocol
interoperability," said Colin Wallis, State Services Commission, New
Zealand Government. "The Concordia Project interoperability demonstrations
announced today are a good first step in demonstrating how industry-wide
collaboration can help drive the development of a ubiquitous, interoperable
and privacy-respecting internet identity layer."
About the Concordia Project
The Concordia Project, originally conceived of by members of Liberty
Alliance, is an organizationally independent global initiative consisting
of representatives from the Information Card, Liberty Alliance,
openLiberty.org, SAML 2.0, Shibboleth, Higgins Project, and WS-*
communities designed to define the identity spectrum and drive
harmonization and interoperability across identity specifications and
protocols. Recognizing today's heterogeneous deployment environment,
Concordia brings individuals and organizations together to identify how to
most efficiently use multiple identity specifications in concert. Anyone
interested in joining the public forum, submitting a use case or viewing
use cases contributed to date can visit the Concordia wiki at
http://www.projectconcordia.org
CONTACT:
Russ DeVeau
For the Concordia Project
508-487-6102- Office
908-251-1549 - Mobile
russdeveau@comcast.net
AOL IM (Russ DeVeau): devcommruss
SOURCE The Concordia Project
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Related links:
http://www.projectconcordia.org
http://www.openLiberty.org
http://projectconcordia.org/index.php/RSA_IOP_Scenarios
CONTACT:
Russ DeVeau For the Concordia Project,
+1-508-487-6102, Office, +1-908-251-1549, Mobile,
russdeveau@comcast.net, AOL IM (Russ DeVeau): devcommruss
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