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However, the real challenge is high assurance digital identities for consumers. There are many issues that would come into play on the path to widespread adoption of high assurance digital identities by consumers. In my discussions with some of the ICAM folks it was suggested that a useful output of this WG would be a better understanding of what those might be, together with some recommendations that might help facilitate high assurance consumer identity. That's a tall order, but it's consistent with the purpose of the Consumer Identity WG as stated in the Charter .
A key enabler of wide adoption and use of digital identities by consumers is the deployment of trust frameworks that enable Service Providers/Relying Parties to trust and accept digital credentials issued by Identity Providers. Recently the Kantara Identity Assurance Framework was provisionally accepted by ICAM to support the needs for trust between IdPs and government SPs/RPs, as was the trust framework put forth by the recently formed Open Identity Exchange. One of the things that's needed is a better understanding of how these trust frameworks may need to change in order to support high assurance consumer applications involving a variety of non-government SPs/RPs.
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