Liberty Focuses on Mobile Web Services
February 14, 2005
By Clint Boulton

The Liberty Alliance Project released Mobile Business Guidelines 2.0, a document for describing how service providers can deploy secure mobile Web services.

The Mobile Business Guidelines document addresses issues such as quality standards, risk management, liability/dispute and resolution policies for those offering single sign-on and Web services via handheld computers, smart phones and laptops.

The publication of the schema was made in time for 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, where the notion of being able to access Web services safely via will be a major topic.

Software makers such as Microsoft, IBM, BEA Systems, and others are intent on expanding the adoption of Web services, application-to-application communication that enables users to purchase goods securely via the Internet.

But the software needs some service providers and wireless operators to use the Web services infrastructure and applications written by the software companies, enabling them on mobile gadgets to spur Web-based purchases for mobile commerce.

This is a step in the right direction. Those operator wishing to accelerate their Liberty/SAML  deployment should look at http://dv3.agileco.net/eTRUST

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