Key data see overview.
Key purpose, services, user community, numbers: Largely focused on managing identities and delegated authorization for government employees and contractors. As of Jan. 2011 153 applications within the legal framework, and est. 1500 application within the technical framework. There are est. 200,000 end users registered.
Inception: With the establishment of a centralized citizen registry in 2001 the identity management was established as a separate project with the intend to support other applications in the future. A key success factor was the inclusion of other stakeholders than the application provider into the definition of legal and technical matters.
Maturity: Both the legal framework and current proprietary protocol are very stable. However, to enable interoperability with federations in other sectors and to support certain use cases, a transition to SAML2 is underway.
Business case: The key benefits that were recognized in this project are:*