Following the October 20 2009 conference call, which was attended by 4 WG participants, it was decided to individually survey the remaining 22 participants (at the time) to assess the interests of each participant regarding consumer identity topics. Of these 22 participants, email responses were received from 7 participants. These responses were combined with the viewpoints of the 4 participants as stated on the October 20 conference call. The topics of interest to these 11 participants are as follows. Each bullet point represents a topic of interest to at least one of these 11 WG participants.
- Identity as it relates to mobile telecom subscribers, including use of subscriber information contained in mobile devices.
- Interest in, and adoption of, smart cards by consumers, including smart card technology on various form factors such as mobile devices, USB dongles, and plastic cards.
- Privacy aspects of consumer identity, such as evaluating the risks to consumers when various items of personal data are breached.
- Strong authentication of consumers.
- US Government's Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) initiative, including OpenID and Information Cards.
- SAML 2.0, including Authentication Context, and its potential for use in consumer identity implementations.
- Build a reference implementation of a federation to support both patients and health care workers.
- Interested in Identity Management and Credentialing Services or Identity Service Providers.
- Free enrollment at Level 4 Authentication by all Providers.
- Consumer education on need and use of hard token authentication and how to evaluate IdSP.
- Digital Certificates and hard tokens that are built on BE as the method of Consumer Authentication.
- Emphasize the term Consumer Authentication over Consumer Identity as identity is a nebulous concept that can