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(1) WG NAME (and any acronym or abbreviation of the name): The WG name, acronym and abbreviation must not include trademarks not owned by the Organization, or content that is infringing, harmful, or inappropriate.
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- Facilitating collaboration and discussion among Liberty 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.
- Present "a government view" into other Kantara Initiative Work Groups so that these views may be taken into account in the development of Kantara Initiative NewOrg Policy Recommendations and Specifications for future contribution to an appropriate Standards Setting Organization.
- CW: Are these bullets strong enough? Our current work programme is driving towards convergence on all levels - policy, process, technical, interop, testing.
To accomplish this goal the eGov Work Group shall:
- Provide Kantara Initiative with subject matter expertise on government-related requirements, challenges for potential work areas
- Provide an information sharing and feedback forum for any Kantara Initiative 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 Initiative 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 Initiative that will further adoption adopt and deployment of deploy ID-FF and ID-WSF Specification Sets solutions CW: or extensions thereof
- To provide Kantara Initiative 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 ID-FF and ID-WSF Specification Sets
2. Work in concert with other Kantara Initiative groups on further requirements, CW: refinement of the Legal 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.
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.
- 'ID-WSF (2.0) eGov Profile' (very early equivalent of its SAML 2.0 sibling ). CW: expected to be published in May 2009.
- Citizen Dashboard use cases and functionality (CW: for eventual feed into Liberty BMEG and TEG)Continued draft development
- Completion of a documented 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 Case documentCases CW: capture for future inclusion in eGov profile and test plan
(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS: Other Draft Recommendations and projected completion dates for submission for All Member Ballot.
- 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 Profile
- Liability issues between Identity Providers and Identity Brokers surrounding public/private circles of trust, as feedback from implementations occur.
- Document eGov PKI/Digital signature/electronic signature use cases to be used in online transaction - identify common characteristics and differences, obstacles and opportunities CW: converging to a test plan for eGov -wide security, integrity and interoperability.
(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
(7) AUDIENCE: Anticipated audience or users of the work.
International Government Security and Technology administrations
(8) DURATION: Objective criteria for determining when the work of the WG has been completed (or a statement that the WG is intended to be a standing WG to address work that is expected to be ongoing).
<INSERT TEXT> The Kantara Initiative Leadership Council Council charters the eGovernment Work Group for five years. It may be amended from time to time, with changes approved by the Leadership Council. This charter will expire on <INSERT DATE>in June 2014.
(9) IPR POLICY: The Organization approved Intellectual Property Rights Policy under which the WG will operate.
Kantara Initiative IPR Policy - Liberty Option - 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 participate
(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.
CW: Kantara Work Groups as required. The expected liaisons with SDOs are: OASIS eGov, W3C eGov, UN/
CEFACT TBG19 (eGov), IDABC, APEC, ISO SC27 WG5, ITU-T and other sector based organizations as required.
(11) CONTRIBUTIONS (optional): A list of contributions that the proposers anticipate will be made to the WG.
eGov Profile v1.5
ID-WSF/WSTrust interface pilot in the Danish Health sector - findings
(12) PROPOSERS: Names, email addresses, and any constituent affiliations of at least the minimum set of proposers required to support forming the WG.
- Colin Wallis, New Zealand Government, State Services Commission
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