Proposed Charter: External Identities

Name

External Identities Working Group

Sponsor

TBD

Group Leader (Chair)

Paul Caskey (UT System) <pcaskey@utsystem.edu>

Mission/Goals

The mission of the External Identities working group is

Exploring/developing deployment models for using external identities in a variety of risk profiles,
identifying and examining the components which are needed to make external identities useful across a broad array of services,
Moving towards the goal of making external identities as useful and trusted as those managed internally.

Exploring account linking
Understanding differences between external identities and locally assigned identities
Exploring approaches to raising the trust associated with external identities (references to other work on trust elevation, e.g. OASIS Trust Elevation Subcommittee)

Membership

Membership in the subcommittee is open to all interested parties. Members join the subcommittee by joining the mailing list, phone calls, and otherwise participating actively in the work of the subcommittee.

The chair of the working group is selected by group members.

Deliverables

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Expected End Date

The working group is expected to complete all deliverables and either close or recharter by March 31, 2013.

Required Resources

wiki space
phone line for conference calls: usual Internet2 conference call line
incommon.org group email list socialidentity@internet2.edu