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The Consumer Identity WG proposes to undertake the following activities (subject to availability of resources):
a) Using a number of sources (see Section 10) as background, together with new insights derived from participation and interaction with industry groups and other identity-related initiatives, the WG will produce one or more whitepaper(s) that defines the concept of an authentication network comprised of Identity Providers that verify consumer identities and issue "strong" identity credentials, Service Providers / Relying Parties who trust and rely on identity services from these Identity Providers, and individual consumers whose identities have been verified by these Identity Providers, and who have been issued credentials by these Identity Providers. The whitepaper(s) will specifically address the needs of individual consumers to control the use of their online identities for obtaining services from online Service Providers, as well as the needs of these Service Providers to establish trusted relationships with Identity Providers who can then authenticate identity-related claims made by legitimate consumers, or fraudsters seeking to obtain identity-related services under a different identity.
b) Information Cards, in particular, may hold special promise as a basis for online consumer identity solutions because of their intuitive visual user interface as electronic "identity cards." Information Cards can help prevent identity fraud in two ways: managed Information Cards issued by trusted third party Identity Providers can provide verified identity claims on behalf of consumers, and self-issued Information Cards implementing cryptographic authentication protocols can be bound to existing online resources or accounts to provide authentication of returning authorized users. The WG will produce a whitepaper outlining how Information Cards, and in particular managed Information Cards, can provide high assurance identity solutions for consumers that can help prevent identity theft. The whitepaper may propose or evaluate ways in which an "identity assurance framework" can be applied to establish trust between Relying Parties who consume identity claims contained in secure tokens generated by Identity Providers, and those Identity Providers who issue managed Information Cards and identity claims transmitted via secure tokens. It may also address the problem of incorporating consumer-friendly, multifactor authentication schemes into the Information Card paradigm, replacing passwords only as the mechanism by which consumers authenticate to their Selectors (ie, online "wallets" holding Information Cards) and/or Identity Providers.
c) Much identity theft occurs because identity claims made by individuals on the basis of personally identifiable information are unverified. Unless all or most Service Providers / Relying Parties require rigorous identity verification prior to establishing high-value, identity-related services, it may still be possible for the identity of someone who has been issued "strong" credentials to have his/her identity "stolen." The WG will produce a whitepaper that explores the feasibility of enabling a Relying Party to discover trusted Identity Providers that can verify an identity claim made on the basis of PII, provided that the PII corresponds to some individual consumer whose identity has been previously verified by a trusted Identity Provider.
The timeframes for completion of these activities is highly dependent on available resources. We generally expect to complete at least one whitepaper described in (a) above within 4 months - 8 months of approval of this charter. Completion of whitepapers described in (b) and (c) will follow at a later time.
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(9) IPR POLICY: The Organization approved Intellectual Property Rights Policy under which the WG will operate.
Kantara Initiative IPR Policy - Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Option
(10) RELATED WORK AND LIAISONS: Related work being done in other WGs or other organizations and any proposed liaison with those other WGs or organizations._
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