The Liberty Alliance Project was an organization formed in September 2001 to establish standards, guidelines and best practices for identity management in computer systems.

The group was originally conceived and named by Jeff Veis, at Sun Microsystems based in Menlo Park, California.

[1] The initiative's goal, which was personally promoted by Scott McNealy of Sun, was to unify technology, commercial and government organizations to create a standard for federated, identity-based Internet applications as an alternative to technology appearing in the marketplace controlled by a single entity such as Microsoft's Passport.

[11] In February 2007 Oracle Corporation contributed the Identity Governance Framework to the alliance,[12] which released the first version publicly in July 2007.

In 2007 the Liberty Alliance helped to found the Project Concordia, an independent initiative for harmonization identity specifications.

[17] Management board members included AOL, British Telecom, Computer Associates (CA), Fidelity Investments, Intel, Internet Society (ISOC), Novell, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Vodafone, Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems.

For the record, here is a complete list of contributed ID-FF 1.2 documents: Only the archived PDF files are individually addressable on the Liberty Alliance web site.