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New Liberty Alliance President: Microsoft to Join the Alliance?
George Goodman, who was recently elected the new president of the Liberty Alliance Project's management board, comments on the possibility of Microsoft joining the Alliance and the benefits of converging the Liberty Web services specs with WS-*. With eBay off the Passport boat, will the Liberty Alliance become the de facto standards body for federated identity?
EBay recently retired its support for Microsoft Passport, which represents a significant downsizing of the Passport network. Does this represent a victory for open standards and the industry-backed Liberty Alliance?
Goodman: I can't speak to a whole lot of the history through personal experience. I think that the rivalry between Passport and Liberty federation standards has certainly been kept warm by some of the technical media. Yes, there are developers who look at it that way, but the alliance is a lot more than just the single sign-on stuff and the alliance was working on standards; Passport was a service. Microsoft makes its own decisions with regard to businesses they'll pursue, and Passport is a business [for Microsoft].
In my view, Liberty, as well as Microsoft and others associated with Microsoft, and others that work with them in the WS-* efforts, clearly support identity management. I think there are plenty of opportunities to still converge and produce the number of different standards that need to be supported in the world. But I don't see any change in Microsoft's direction on Passport, as being a direct reflection, one way or the other, on Liberty.
Why has Microsoft been reluctant to join the Liberty Alliance?
Goodman: I'm not Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, so I can't really speak for them. I know that as operating systems providers, they are very interested in maintaining control of the things they see as important to their operating system.
I know that one of their views is that the best way the specification process works for them is when they have a great deal of control over it themselves, perhaps along with a small number of other companies, and that's the approach they've taken with the WS-* standards.
Liberty has taken more of an open approach in whom we sign up as a sponsor. I've even heard the arguments that Microsoft makes its sign-up [under the philosophy] that you should be able to make faster progress if you keep greater control over the process for defining [the specifications].
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