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Identity Capable Platforms (ICP) and
Federated Provisioning Services [back to
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This R&D project is in the
context of Liberty Alliance’s initiative on Identity Capable Platforms and
Provisioning Services.
Identity-capable platforms (ICP)
are devices (e.g. laptops, PDAs, smartphones, etc.) that enable
secure and trusted interactions of users with services, within
organisations and/or in federated service scenarios. This is
achieved with a mixture of software and (possibly) hardware
technologies.
A working group in Liberty
Alliance (backed, among many, by Intel, BT, HP Software/HP Labs) is
defining ICP properties and its capabilities along with the required
back-end operational services. Federated services and federated
identity management is a fast growing market. Based on Liberty
Alliance (LA) sources, more than 2 billion identities are nowadays
impacted by/use LA technologies and related solutions. ICP-enabled
solutions are keys to create further confidence, safety and a
simplified user participation in this world.
HP Software business and HP
Labs have been involved in this Liberty Alliance initiative, to
research and develop back-end service provisioning capabilities (via
HP Identity Management assets - HP OpenView Select Federation) that
are required to enable ICP.
Our work has been
successfully demonstrated with a prototype and related
Proof-of-Concept v1 (PoCv1). A presentation of this PoCv1 has been
given at RSA 2007 (showcasing joint work done by Intel, BT, HP/HP
Labs): it received positive feedback and interest from the audience.
The figure below (source)
shows the basic concepts underpinning PoCv1.
Next steps involve further
refining related Liberty Alliance standards and moving towards a
PoCv2, to be potentially used in technical pilots and trials.
Further information and details about this
project and related Liberty Alliance's initiative can be found at the following links:
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