Charter

(1) WG NAME: WG Name (and any acronym or abbreviation of the name) - The WG name, acronym and abbreviation shall not include (1) trademarks not owned by the Organization, or (2) content that is infringing, harmful, or inappropriate;

Telecommunications Identity Work Group - Telco ID WG

(2) PURPOSE: Clear statement of purpose and justification why the proposed WG is necessary;

The ultimate goal of the Work Group is to help reconciling fragmented efforts in the telco specifications development area and in the telco market place regarding identity management. The identity of humans, legal entities and objects in general is addressed.

In order to achieve that, it will act as a forum to facilitate the dialog between Kantara Initiative and the telco industry sector. Additionally, it will produce telco specific technical material to support developing Kantara Initiative specifications as necessary to ensure proper implementation of suitable to a telco infrastructure.
The Work Group will

• Provide telco industry knowledge and needs in the identity management space towards Kantara Initiative.
• Provide input to other Kantara Initiative Work Groups to ensure that Kantara Initiative specifications address telco specific needs where appropriate
• Produce telco adaptations and refinement advisement to potential Kantara Initiative technical specifications - includes profiling and implementation guidelines
• Drive communication between Kantara Initiative and other telco work and standardization fora through liaisons

(3) SCOPE: Scope - The Scope must be related to the purpose of the Organization and must include a definition of the work that is envisioned;

The Work Group is chartered to:

• Provide Kantara Initiative with subject matter expertise with respect to telecommunications and identity
• Become a discussion forum and a working group issuing guidelines for telecommunications-specific aspects of Kantara Initiative Work Groups and identity space
• Provide an information sharing and feedback forum for Participants with an interest in identity-based services in the telecommunications space, and to communicate core findings of the WG as well as the guidelines this WG will issue, to the relevant Kantara Initiative organizational entities
• Where appropriate, take part in the identification and planning of industry events, providing input to marketing to execute in these arenas
• Where appropriate, provide input to telecommunications-focused Kantara Initiative activities (such as other standardization fora), including, but not limited to, profiling of Kantara Initiative specifications, implementation guidelines, policy and marketing recommendations.
• To provide input paths for external communications through liaisons, such as contributed collateral materials and articles
• To provide Kantara Initiative with spokespersons on telecommunications-related topics related to the Kantara Initiative agenda

(4) DRAFT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION: Working Titles of draft Technical Specifications to be produced(if any) and projected completion dates and the SSO(s) to which these Specifications will be submitted upon approval by the Membership;

No technical specifications are intended to be produced by this WG.

Rather, the intent of this group is to profile and develop implementation guidelines on other Kantara Initiative WG´s technical specifications that, in turn, will be provided as input to Telco Standards Setting Organizations (SSOs) as well (see 'DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS' in item 5).  The specific SSOs where the Telco WG intents to provide input to are: 3GPP, OMA and GSMA

(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS: Other Draft Recommendations and projected completion dates (i.e., deliverables that are not Technical Specifications that will be submitted for All Member Ballot);

Draft: IMS whitepaper - Marketing recommendation and implementation guideline.
Sechedule: Projected completion by mid 2010.

Drafts: Telco implementation guidelines on Kantara Initiative WG-x deliverable-y (e.g., IDP selector)
Schedule: Project completion by close of 2010 with a caveat that the group may review and revise this schedule in accordance with the progress of other Kantara WG Draft Technical Specification.

(6) LEADERSHIP: Proposed WG Chair and Editor(s) (if any) subject to confirmation by a vote of the WG Participants;

• Convener: Jonas Hogberg, Ericsson
• Co-chair: Jos