If InCommon chooses to adopt the IdPoLR Working Group's recommendation to help make available an IdPoLR service as soon as possible, then UnitedId.org would be a strong candidate. That claim is based on the following evaluation of UnitedId against the requirements defined in the WG's final report.

UnitedId meets the following MUST requirements today:

By joining InCommon and taking a set of procedural steps, UnitedId could also meet the following MUST Requirements

Some development work would be needed to meet the remaining MUST Requirement

UnitedId also meets the following desired conditions:

Steps Entailed if Recommendation is Accepted

If InCommon endorses the primary recommendation and chooses to move ahead toward a UnitedId-based IdP of Last Resort, the next steps would include the following: