(1) Discussion Group Name
Concordia Discussion Group
(2) Discussion Topic/Purpose/Motivation
The Concordia Discussion Group is an evolution of the Concordia Program and is designed as an umbrella initiative to drive harmonization and interoperability of identity specifications and protocols. As expressed by the name (Roman goddess of agreement, understanding, and harmony), the goal of this group is to help drive the development of use-case scenarios where multiple identity specifications, standards and/or other initiatives might co-exist, recognizing heterogeneous deployment environments of the marketplace. Based on this open knowledge gathering process, the group recognizes that additional specifications, profiles and/or services may need to be defined.
The group's goals are as follows:
- Drive development of a ubiquitous, interoperable, privacy-respecting layer for identity in order to:
- Help drive deployment costs down
- Assure implementers and deployers of better success and greater productivity
- Lead to more commercial products and open source offerings, in turn leading to a healthy market
- Facilitate new service offerings
- Assure interoperability across this layer
- Deliver confidence to implementers and deployers in implementing today with successful interoperability tomorrow
- Encourage strong, cross-sector, cross-geography participation through an open development process
(3) Discussion Group Leadership
Eve Maler, Sun
(4) Audience (who is this DG aimed to attracting into the discussion)
Cross-sector and cross-geography identity based implementers and deployers
(5) Copyright Policy (which copyright license will this DG operate under)
IPR Liberty Option
(Eve - There is also an Apache option which might be useful as an alternative to a Creative Commons option). If the group would prefer a Creative Commons option I think it is also fair to include that in this DG proposal)
(6) Proposers
- Eve Maler, Sun
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