Charter

Working Draft

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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.

eGovernment Work Group (eGov)

(2) PURPOSE: Please provide a clear statement of purpose and justification why the proposed WG is necessary.

The eGovernment Work Group (eGov WG) will be responsible for:

Facilitating collaboration and discussion among Kantara 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
Presenting "a government view" into other Kantara Work Groups so that these views may be taken into account in the development of Kantara Initiative Policy Recommendations and Specifications for future contribution to an appropriate Standards Setting Organization
Promoting the development, adoption and support for eGovernment deployment profiles of open specifications.

To accomplish this goal the eGov Work Group shall:

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 OASIS SAML 2.0 and ID-WSF Specification Sets solutions or extensions thereof
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.

(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 OASIS SAML 2.0 and ID-WSF Specification Sets
2. Work in concert with other Kantara groups on further requirements 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.

(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.

'ID-WSF (2.0) eGov Profile' (very early equivalent of its SAML 2.0 sibling expected to be published in May 2010 for submission to OASIS.
SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V2.0 (with PKI and meta data use cases included) complete by May 2010,for submission to OASIS.

The specifciations (other than those listed 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.

Requirements for Test Plan for SAML 2.0 web browser SSO eGov Profile V2.0 for consumption by the group responsible for conformance testing within Kantara
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 and format of identity attributes used by governments for furrther formalization by other Kantara WGs or SDOs as required (ongoing)
Liability issues between Identity Providers 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 Signature/electronic siginature use cases to be used in online transactions - identify common charateristics and differences, obstacles, 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
ID-WSF/WS-Trust interface draft specification (similar depth to Basic SOAP binding).

(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, Department of Internal Affairs (interim Chair)

To Be Advised (interim Deputy Chair)

(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).

The Kantara Leadership Council charters the eGovernment Work Group for five years, expiring in 2014. The fixed end date is to allow for the current Specification work to complete, any subsequent work following the Recommendations to complete, and force a review of whether 'eGov' continues to pose significantly special or different challenges to those faced by other large enterprises.

The charter may be amended from time to time, with changes approved by the Leadership Council.

(9) IPR POLICY: The Organization approved Intellectual Property Rights Policy under which the WG will operate.

Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike option

(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.

Kantara Work Groups (such as the ID-WSF Evolution WG) 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 Final
ID-WSF/WSTrust interface pilot in the Danish Health sector - findings

(12) MEETING PROCEDURE:

Meetings will be conducted under The Chatham House Rule as the default (see http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/about/chathamhouserule/ ). However, any individual making a statement retains the right to opt out of the rule and direct the minutes to record that same individual's attribution to the statement.

(13) 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, Department of Internal Affairs, colin(dot)wallis(at)dia(dot)govt(dot)nz
Soren-Peter Nielsen, Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, spn(at)itst(dot)dk
Shin Adachi, NTT, shin(at)adachi(dot)us
Trent Adams, Internet Society, adams(at)isoc(dot)org
Lena Kannappan, FuGen Solutions, Inc., lkannappan(at)fugensolutions(dot)com