Mission:
Foster identity community harmonization, interoperability, innovation, and broad adoption through the development of open identity specifications, operational frameworks, education programs, deployment and usage best practices for privacy-respecting, secure access to online services
Vision:
Ensure secure, identity-based, on-line interactions while preventing misuse of personal information so that networks will become privacy protecting and more natively trustworthy environments.
Goals:
Accelerate marketplace adoption through clear messages, defined processes, and open community collaboration that brings vendors, deployers, individuals, and organizations together
Bring together technical, business, legal, and policy experience to achieve holistic & trusted identity management solutions
Establish an open and democratic governance model with no financial barrier to participation
Implement an operational structure with nimble processes, procedures, and oversight, and a viable financial model
Commit to open standards and encourage interoperable implementations from both the COTS product and open source development communities
Foster positive dialogue across all relevant organizations to assure coordination, harmonization, and re-use of all applicable open content (specs, policy, etc.)
Establish programs with strong branding for technical and operational output to promote interoperability, compliance and/or conformance