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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 ID-FF and ID-WSF Specification Sets solutions CW: or solutions or extensions thereof
- To provide 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
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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 ID-FF and ID-WSF Specification Sets
2. Work in concert with other Kantara groups on further requirements , CW: refinement 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
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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.
- SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V1.5, together with test plan, complete by July 2009.
- 'ID-WSF (2.0) eGov Profile' (very early equivalent of its SAML 2.0 sibling CW: sibling expected to be published in May 2009.
- Citizen Dashboard use cases and functionality CW: for eventual feed into Liberty BMEG and TEG
- Completion of a documented 2010.
- ID-WSF - /WS-Trust interface draft specification (similar depth to Basic SOAP binding)
- Continued input into the Authentication Context Level of Assurance Profile submitted to OASIS SSTC.
- PKI Use Cases CW: capture for future inclusion in eGov profile and test plancomplete by October 2009.
- SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V2.0 (with PKI and meta data use cases included), together with test plan, complete by May 2010.
The specifciations 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.
(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS: Other Draft Recommendations and projected completion dates for submission for All Member Ballot.
- 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 of identity attributes that need to be profiled across governments. CW: Not sure what this means ..maybe the continuation of the eGov Profileused by governments for furrther formalization by other Kantara WGs or SDOs as required (ongoing)
- Liability issues between Identity Providers and Identity Brokers 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 signatureSignature/electronic signature siginature use cases to be used in online transaction transactions - identify common characteristics charateristics and differences, obstacles and opportunities CW: converging to a test plan , 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.
(6) LEADERSHIP: Proposed WG Chair and Editor(s) (if any) subject to confirmation by a vote of the WG Participants.
Colin Wallis, New Zealand Government, State Services Commission (interim Chair)
To Be Advised (interim Deputy Chair)
(7) AUDIENCE: Anticipated audience or users of the work.
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(9) IPR POLICY: The Organization approved Intellectual Property Rights Policy under which the WG will operate.
- Current Liberty IPR Model - Apache 2.0 (for use if your group will produce source code)
CW: Work to be done here: Include Creative Commons Attribution -Share Alike 3.0. Note that this will require further clauses on how members position themselves regarding licensing when they participateShare Alike (non ported)
(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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- Colin Wallis, New Zealand Government, State Services Commission/Department of Internal Affairs, colin dot wallis at dia dot govt dot nz
- Soren-Peter Nielsen, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency
- , spn at itstdot dk
- Shin Adachi, NTT, shin at adachi dot com
- Trent Adams, Internet Society, adams at isoc dot org