Abstract

Attribute Management is a hot topic in the Internet world today. The goal of the Attribute Management discussion group is to determine what Attribute Management actually means to Kantara Initiative (KI) stakeholders, what areas need further discussion or development, and to make recommendations for further work. regarding where and how the Kantara Initiative should contribute to efforts in this space.

The charter states:

IDENTIFY: Kantara Initiative stakeholder requirements regarding Attribute Management.
GAP ANALYSIS: Attribute Management KI stakeholder requirements compared to work under development (both internal and external to KI)
RECOMMEND: scope of work, potential KI adoption of external works, collaboration with external organizations and/or new WG in KI to perform design phase of Attribute Management based on requirements, discovery and gap analysis.

The purpose of this report is to Provide provide a high-level look at the current state of the Attribute Management space and make recommendations on where further work would provide the most value to KI stakeholders.

Introduction

Note: the full charter of the discussion group is available online

With a variety of government, commercial, and research initiatives around Internet Identity, the question on questions around if and how to create a common methodology for managing the bits of information about an entity on the Internet is in urgent need of an answeranswers. The Kantara Initiative has sponsored a discussion group to look at the attribute management space and make recommendations on where focused effort from the Kantara Initiative might help move this space forward. And while While attributes can apply to both individuals and devices the work here is focused on human (identity) attributes.

This report and associated recommendations has have been developed out of several months of reviewing and discussing the attribute space across a broad range of sectors and interests. The wiki space for the discussion group includes a repository of links to information in government, commercial industry, and higher education in the United States, Canada, Europe, and New Zealand. From that base , of information we have identified the following gaps and made a set of recommendations for further work.

Identifying Requirements for Attribute Management

http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/AMDG/Attribute+Requirements

After several weeks of discussion and collecting information from sources across a variety of sectors, the The members of the Discussion Group condensed the requirements of what is needed for Attribute Management as follows:

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As the group discussed requirements, identifying where those requirements had no cohesive, supporting effort behind them guided the definition and prioritization of gaps in the Attribute Management space. Some areas had some limited work associated with them, but the effort behind that work either addressed only a small section of the problem space or seemed to be working in a vacuum. The list below highlights the significant major gaps and where efforts exist (what work, if any) that start to fill those gaps, is happening in that area.

The attribute space - Areas of interest, summary of efforts, categorization of gaps

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