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- Facilitating collaboration and discussion among Kantara members with an interest in eGovernment identity management applications and services
- Acting as a forum to discuss best practices by government organizations on national, regional and municipal levels.
- Presenting "a government view" into other Kantara Work Groups so that these views may be taken into account in the development of Kantara Initiative Policy Recommendations and Specifications for future contribution to an appropriate Standards Setting Organization.
- Promoting the development, adoption and support for eGovernment deployment profiles of open specifications.
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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.
(3) SCOPE: Explain the scope and definition of the planned work.
Specific Objectives of the eGov Work Group shall include:
1. Continue to develop an operational checklist for the federation and trust aspects of deployments of OASIS SAML 2.0 and ID-WSF Specification Sets
2. Work in concert with other Kantara groups on further requirements e.g. but not limited to, refinement and promotion of privacy, security and legal Frameworks and Deployment Guidelines for Circles of Trust, IAF and SAC development and specifications as required.
(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.
- '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.
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- Requirements for Test Plan for SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V2.0 for consumption by the group responsible for conformance testing within Kantara
- Continued input ito the Authentication Context Level of Assurance Profile submitted to OASIS SSTC (ongoing as required)
- 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 SAML V.2.0 and ID-WSF (ongoing as required, to feed into future Comparison and Analysis documents to support future revisions of the eGov Profiles).
- Identify and agree a common set and format of identity attributes used by governments for furrther formalization by other Kantara WGs or SDOs as required (ongoing)
- Liability issues between Identity Providers surrounding public/private circles of trust, as feedback from implementations occur, for further formalization by other Kantara WGs or SDOs as required (ongoing).
- Document eGov PKI/Digital Signature/electronic siginature use cases to be used in online transactions - identify common charateristics and differences, obstacles, opportunities (ongoing as required, to feed into future revisions of the eGov Profiles and test plans for eGov-wide security, integrity and interoperability).
- Citizen Dashboard use cases and functionality (ongoing as required, to feed into Kantara IdP Selection and ID-WSF Evolution WGs
- ID-WSF/WS-Trust interface draft specification (similar depth to Basic SOAP binding) complete by October 2009, for submission to OASIS.
(6) LEADERSHIP: Proposed WG Chair and Editor(s) (if any) subject to confirmation by a vote of the WG Participants.
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