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The ultimate goal of the Work Group is to help reconciling fragmented efforts in the telco specifications development area and in the telco market place regarding identity management.
In order to achieve that, it will act as a forum to facilitate the dialog between Kantara Initiative and the telco industry sector. Additionally, it will produce telco specific technical material on top of NewOrg to support developing Kantara Initiative specifications as necessary to ensure proper implementation of suitable Kantara Initiative technologies in to a telco infrastructure.
The Work Group will
- Provide telco industry knowledge and needs on in the identity management space towards Kantara Initiative.
- Facilitate Provide input to other Kantara Initiative Work Groups to ensure that Kantara Initiative specifications as appropriate address telco specific needs where appropriate
- Produce telco adaptations and refinements on the NewOrg technical specificationsrefinement advisement to potential Kantara Initiative technical specifications - includes profiling and implementation guidelines
- Drive communication between Kantara Initiative and other telco work and standardization fora through liasionsliaisons
(3) SCOPE: Scope - The Scope must be related to the purpose of the Organization and must include a definition of the work that is envisioned;
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- Provide Kantara Initiative with subject matter expertise with respect to telecommunications and identity
- Become a discussion forum and a working group issuing guidelines for telecommunications-specific aspects of Kantara Initiative Work Groups and identity space
- Provide an information sharing and feedback forum for both members and non-members Participants with an interest in identity-based services in the telecommunications space, and to communicate core findings of the WG as well as the guidelines this WG will issue, to the relevant Kantara Initiative organizational entities
- Where appropriate, take part in the identification and planning of industry events, providing input to marketing to execute in these arenas
- Where appropriate, provide input to telecommunications-focused Kantara Initiative activities (such as other standardization fora), including, but not limited to, profiling of Kantara Initiative specifications, implementation guidelines, policy and marketing recommendations.
- To provide inputs input paths for external communications through liaisons, such as contributed collateral materials and contributed articles
- To provide Kantara Initiative with spokespersons on telecommunications-related topics related to the Kantara Initiative agenda
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No technical specifications are intended to be produced by this WG, but rather profiling and .
Rather, the intent of this group is to profile and develop implementation guidelines on other Kantara Initiative WG´s technical specifications that, in turn, will be provided as input to Telco SSO´s Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs) as well (see 'DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS' in item 5). The specific SSOs where the Telco WG intents to provide input to are: 3GPP, OMA and GSMA
(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS: Other Draft Recommendations and projected completion dates (i.e., deliverables that are not Technical Specifications that will be submitted for All Member Ballot);
Draft: IMS whitepaper . - Marketing recommendation and implementation guideline.
Completion Sechedule: Projected completion by mid 2009. No submission to telco SSO´s planned.
Drafts: Telco implementation guidelines on Kantara Initiative WG-x deliverable-y (e.g., IDP selector)
Schedule: Project completion by close of 2010 with a caveat that the group may review and revise this schedule in accordance with the progress of other Kantara WG Draft Technical Specification.
(6) LEADERSHIP: Proposed WG Chair and Editor(s) (if any) subject to confirmation by a vote of the WG Participants;
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The Telecommunications Identity Work Group is chartered by Kantara Initiative Leadership Council to begin its work with no expiration date pre-defined, in XX of 2009, with a durration of 5 years noting that the charter may be amended from time to time if needed.
(9) IPR POLICY: The Intellectual Property Rights Policy under which the WG will operate;
Kantara Initiative IPR Policy - Liberty Option
(10) RELATED WORK AND LIAISONS: Related work being done in other WGs or organizations and any proposed liaison with other WGs or organizations;
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(11) CONTRIBUTIONS (optional): Optionally, a list of contributions that the proposers anticipate will be made to the WG.
Potential for contribution of the proposed IMS whitepaper as mentioned in item 5 above in the case that the white paper is published by Liberty Alliance prior to the formation of the WG
(12) PROPOSERS: Names, email addresses, and any constituent affiliations of at least the minimum set of proposers required to support forming the WG
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