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NEW YORK, March 29 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ –

Move comes as deployments of Liberty Federation and
Liberty Web Services increase worldwide

The Liberty Alliance Project, the global consortium developing open
standards for federated identity, interoperable strong authentication and
identity-enabled Web services, today announced Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Corporation (NTT) as the newest member of the Liberty Alliance management
board. NTT joins management board members from AOL, Ericsson, Fidelity
Investments, France Telecom, General Motors, HP, IBM, Intel, Novell, Oracle,
RSA Security, Sun Microsystems and Vodafone in driving the strategic direction
of Liberty Alliance on a global basis.

NTT has been a member of Liberty Alliance for the past four years and is
active in a number of Liberty programs including Liberty’s Technology Expert
Group (TEG), the Japan Special Interest Group, the Strong Authentication Expert
Group (SAEG), the Payments Special Interest Group and the Identity Theft
Prevention Group. NTT regularly participates in Liberty’s conformance events
and has products available today that are among the over seventy identity
solutions from multiple vendors that have passed interoperability testing for
Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services.

The addition of NTT to Liberty’s management board comes at a time when the
adoption of Liberty’s open identity standards and user-centric identity
management capabilities are increasing around the world. With organizations
deploying Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services across vertical market
segments, Liberty expects that there will be well over one billion
Liberty-enabled identities and devices by the end of this year, with nearly 700
million in the global telecom and service provider sectors.

"As momentum for Liberty’s open user-centric management capabilities
continues to grow, we welcome NTT to the Liberty Alliance management board,"
said George Goodman, president of the Liberty Alliance management board and
director, Platform Capabilities Lab at Intel. "With today’s news, NTT has
expanded its relationship within Liberty to further advance the deployment of
Liberty Federation and Liberty Web Services worldwide."

About the Liberty Alliance Project
The Liberty Alliance Project is a global alliance of companies, non-profit
and government organizations developing open standards for federated network
identity, interoperable strong authentication (ID-SAFE) and Web services.
Liberty Federation, which consists of ID-FF 1.1, 1.2 and SAML 2.0
specifications, and Liberty Web Services, which consists of ID-WSF 1.0, 1.1,
provide consumers and organizations with a more convenient and secure way to
control online identity information. A list of deploying organizations along
with details about deployments in vertical market segments is available at
http://www.projectliberty.org/about/marketadoption.php. Liberty Alliance is the
only global identity organization with a Public Policy Expert Group (PPEG)
offering guidance and best practices on privacy within all Liberty deployments.
Membership in Liberty Alliance is open to all commercial and non-commercial
organizations. A full list of members, as well as information about how to
become a member, is available at http://www.projectliberty.org/membership

CONTACT: Russell DeVeau
Liberty Alliance Communications
718-263-1762 - New York
908-251-1549 - Mobile
russ@projectliberty.org
russ.deveau@verizon.net
AOL IM: devcommruss

SOURCE: The Liberty Alliance Project

CONTACT: Russell DeVeau of Liberty Alliance Communications,
+1-718-263-1762,
mobile: +1-908-251-1549,
russ@projectliberty.org,
russ.deveau@verizon.net,
AOL IM: devcommruss

Web site: http://www.projectliberty.org/about/marketadoption.php
http://www.projectliberty.org/membership