This marks my first post, and the start of the IGF Project at openLiberty.

The Identity Governance Framework (IGF) is now the second project at openLiberty.org. IGF will help you enable your identity-consuming applications to bind governance policies (consent and constraints) to the identity data you receive and ensure those policies are enforced whenever any other IGF-enabled application tries to access that data at a later time.

From today’s press release…

“Consisting of nearly 50 subscribers with leadership and representation from HP, Intel, Internet2/Shibboleth and OpenSAML, openLiberty.org is an open source community open to everyone interested in advancing open source Liberty Web Services and now IGF implementations. openLiberty.org will develop a set of open source libraries and technologies based on the Apache 2.0 license that developers and vendors can use to build products that consume, provide and manage identity-related information based on the IGF protocols. Developers, individuals and organizations can get more information and join the openLiberty.org IGF community here.”

A brief overview of the market requirements use case document is available here.

For those of you wanting to follow updates to the IGF project, keep an eye on this blog. I will also continue to post more general articles over at the IdentityPrivacy blog.

I also want to thank all of the Liberty member organizations who have contributed to getting the Market Requirements Document done. Their contributions have really begun to crystalize the IGF requirements. Now we all have to work hard to make IGF “real” through actual implementation and standards definition!

Other sites of interest:

• Liberty Alliance - IGF Strategic Initiative
• Oracle Technology Network - IGF Draft Specifications & Overview

…/Phil

The value of a good editor!

Last night we checked in the first lines of code for the project on our project site on sourceforge! The code is primarily the ID-WSF EndpointReference modeled with XML Tooling. It requires three projects from OpenSAML, java-xmltooling, java-opensaml2, and java-openws. The great thing is that the saml2 assertion and the soap envelope came for free from the OpenSAML libs.

My spouse pointed out the text on the back of the boat pictured to the left. It was too good not to send your way. Imagine, ruining a perfectly good boat!