Help education and research organizations solve the Identity and Access Management (IAM) challenges they encounter
By providing open source implementations of key IAM capabilities and assuring their long-term sustainability
By standardizing
How applications (whether local, federated or SaaS) integrate with IAM infrastructure
How existing institutional IAM infrastructure can interoperate with TIER components to provide a full IAM service suite
The TIER Entity Registry Working Group and the TIER Data Structures and APIs Working Group share the following key goals
To define integration and interoperability strategies and models
To help charter development projects that address specific gaps in existing open source IAM packages
To develop a comprehensive functional model of IAM
To define and adopt specifications for the resource schema and interfaces needed to deliver identity and access management (IAM) services