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They promise 'liberty' — from password pain

By Anand Parthasarathy

BANGALORE: NOV. 12. If you are an average user of the Internet: the feeling will be familiar: the pain of trying to remember multiple passwords and log-in names — one for every online service you sign for.

Help may finally be at hand for those hassled. A consortium of over one hundred global corporations with a Web presence has come together under the Liberty Alliance (www.projectliberty.com) to evolve a common network identity model. This is expected to create what is being called a `federated identity standard' which will allow users to operate with just one password and identity. This will be handled by multiple dotcom services working together as a federation: the customer's identity will be handled only by his primary provider, who will then authenticate it to other services only when authorised.

This will also add value to the user by enabling him or her to access `freebies' or bonus services from one provider on the basis of business with another, says Barbara Gordon, Vice President, Worldwide Sales for the U.S.-based IT company, Sun Microsystems. She was speaking here this evening to an invited audience of Nasscom members. Ms. Gordon, now in India on a brief visit, added that Sun was a prime mover in this initiative to bring interoperability and common standards to Net-based transactions.

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