Eight vendors, among them Sun, have passed the Liberty Alliance Project's Security Assertions Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 interoperability testing. Darryl K. Taft reports in eWeek that the other vendors include the Electronics & Telecommunications Research Institute, Ericsson, Novel Inc., Oracle Corp., Reactivity, Symlabs Inc. and Trustgenix Inc. The certification testing also included the Liberty Alliance Project's Identity Web Services 1.1.

Developed by the Security Services Technical Committee of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), SAML is an XML-based framework for communicating user authentication, entitlements and attribute information, Taft reports. The recent testing was sponsored by the IEEE and conducted at its Piscataway, NJ operations center.

"We congratulate the first companies passing Liberty's SAML 2.0 interoperability testing and welcome them to the continuously growing list of organizations that have demonstrated multi-vendor interoperability of Liberty-enabled products," Donal O'Shea, executive director, Liberty Alliance Project, said in a statement reported by Taft.

According to Earl Perkins, vice president, Gartner Inc., "It's all about the reality of products that work together in actual deployments. 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." [...read more...]

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