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- Provide Kantara with subject matter expertise on government-related requirements, challenges for potential work areas
- Provide an information sharing and feedback forum for any Kantara participants, Discussion and Work Groups with an interest in eGovernment, and to communicate core findings and concerns of the Work Group to the relevant Kantara organizational entities.
- Where appropriate, take part in the identification, planning, execution and follow-up of Government-focused industry events
- Where appropriate, recommend liaison relationships for Kantara that will further adopt and deploy OASIS SAML 2.0 and ID-WSF Specification Sets solutions or extensions thereof
- Provide Kantara with spokespersons on eGovernment-related topics.
- Share solutions and/or technical approaches to avoid 'reinventing the wheel' and to drive adoption of standards-based identity management mechanisms in government on a global basis
- Document eGov Use Cases requiring federation - Identify common characteristics and differences, obstacles and opportunities. Map use cases to existing (or where applicable new) profiles in SAMLv2.0 and ID-WSF.
(3) SCOPE: Explain the scope and definition of the planned work.
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(4) DRAFT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: List Working Titles of draft Technical Specifications to be produced (if any), projected completion dates, and the Standards Setting Organization(s) to which they will be submitted upon approval by the Membership.Document eGov Use Cases requiring federation - Identify common characteristics and differences, obstacles and opportunities. Map use cases to existing (or where applicable new) profiles in SAMLv2.0 and ID-WSF.
- 'ID-WSF (2.0) eGov Profile' (very early equivalent of its SAML 2.0 sibling expected to be published in May 2010 for submission to OASIS.
- ID-WSF/WS-Trust interface draft specification (similar depth to Basic SOAP binding) complete by October 2009, for submission to OASIS.
- SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V2.0 (with PKI and meta data use cases included) complete by May 2010,for submission to OASIS.
The specifciations above will (other than those listed above) will be handed to the agreed most appropriate SDO(s) but not limited to; OASIS (eGov MS and SSTC), W3C (eGov), UN/CEFACT (eGov TBG19), WS-i, IDABC, APEC, ISO SC27, ITU-T and other sector based organizations as required.
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