Posted: 19th Oct, 2004 By: MarkJ
Telewest Broadband has become one of seven new members for the Liberty Alliance, a group working on identity standards for 'Web services'. Adobe, DAI-Labor, Deny All, M-Tech Information Technology, OpenNetwork Technologies and Senforce Technologies were the other new additions:
Web services require identity verification for benefits such as single sign-on and while the Liberty Alliance already boasts a range of vendors, non-profit organisations and users, its latest round of backers covers many technology bases, including document and location-aware security.
It is notable the body is now also talking about using its standards for applications such as digital rights management -- a vital future area for Microsoft, which holds key ground in the development of web services.
Web services refers to a set of standards based around Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) used to link together software components that bolt together over the internet.More @
ZDNet.