10 January, 2006 - 10:10am

The Liberty Alliance recently announced they're coming out with a federated identity management solution for individuals, called People Service. It's great to see the large organizations involved with the Alliance recognizing the value in individual internet usage, and their needs, and in social applications on the Web.

The project site describes it as:

"With Liberty Alliance People Service, consumers and enterprise users can now centrally manage all of their online social relationships using a federated network approach with privacy controls built into the system".

It will be interesting to see whether this is an open or closed "circle of trust" approach to IdM for individuals, to what extent it will be user vs silo-centric, and how complicated it is. Our Identity 2.0 vision of the Web supports a user-centric approach to internet identity that is simple, secure, and open. We look forward to learning more details on People Service.