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  • Attribute Assurance Profiles - ???'' .. e.g. different LoA for attributes based if they are self reported or proofed at a high level
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ContextContext

From an electronic identity perspective, what information is expressed about an individual will almost certainly vary according to the context in which it is requested or presented. An identity is expressed differently with different attributes under different contexts. Different contexts may include:

  • individual as citizen
  • individual as social group member
  • individual as employee
  • individual as researcher, student, or faculty

How should attributes be categorized or expressed in different contexts? Is this a question that can be rolled in to the questions around Attribute Semantics? Governance? Schema? It overlaps all of the above.

Efforts in this space

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Governance

A driver for the exploration of attribute management is the growing economy behind the mining and exchange of attribute information. We see here the overlap of financial reward and privacy regulation; overlaps such as this generally see the creation of some kind of governance model. That governance may be formal regulation, it may be accepted industry standards groups, or some other model.

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