The Liberty Alliance Project on Tuesday updated its specification for creating a standard for network identity and solicited for the first time public comment on the document, signaling the consortium’s intention to act more like a traditional standards body. The group released version 1.1 of the spec, which corrects a security flaw and clarifies ambiguities in the text of the draft. The 130-member group in July released the first draft, which details how to create a universal user identity to be used for authentication as a user moves from Web site to Web site. The effort is similar to Microsoft’s Passport single sign-on consumer service, which it is trying to adapt for corporate use.
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