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The Identity Assurance Work Group (IAWG) has been formed within the NewOrg Kantara Initiative to foster the adoption of trusted on-line identity services. To advance this goal, the IAEG Identity Assurance Worg Group will provide a forum for identifying and resolving obstacles to market and commercial acceptance that have limited broad deployment and adoption of trusted identity services thus far. The first step will be development of a global standard framework and the necessary support programs for assessing identity service providers (IdSPs) against criteria that determine the level of assurance that a relying party (RP) may assume in evaluating identity claims provided by those IdSPs. The framework and processes will be defined in a way that scales, empowers business processes and benefits individual users of identity assurance services. The framework will be the basis upon which IdSPs, RPs and their services can be certified as compliant with common policies, business rules and baseline commercial terms, avoiding redundant compliance efforts and market confusion about the substance and value of identity assurance delivered.
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- A uniform set of standards based on the IAF that will be used to accredit assessors who can in turn be relied upon by communities of interest in evaluating participants
- A set of strategic recommendations to the NewOrg Kantara Initiative Management Board regarding the development and operation of an assessor accreditation program to advance the adoption of the IAF that would serve to foster inter-federation deployments on a global scale.
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(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 NewOrg Kantara Initiative Leadership Council charters the Identity Assurance 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>.
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