(1) WG NAME (and any acronym or abbreviation of the name): 

Clients Work Group

(2) PURPOSE: 

The goal of the Clients Work Group is to develop, maintain and evolve draft Client Specifications for interactions with intelligent/ehanced client platforms (such as a smart card or a computing platform with an isolated execution environment, though there is nothing restricting these same specifications from being applied to/implemented by off-the-shelf software applications running in a generic OS).  The existing Liberty Advanced Clients Specifications will be accepted as a starting place and additional work to realize the requirements specified in the Liberty Robust Client MRD in future editions of those specifications..

To achieve this, the group will undertake the development of Client related specification drafts while continuously reviewing current and emerging technology for potential harmonization and convergence. Such Technical Drafts will be contributed to an appropriate Standards Setting Organization for its life cycle and maintenance phases.

Specifically, the Clients Work Group is responsible for:

• Driving the harmonization and interoperability of the Client Specifications and protocols which currently coexist in the identity space.
• The phased development and delivery of Client Specification harmonization and convergence deliverables such as extensions or profiles. Requirements and proposals may also be driven by requirements and proposals contributed by other Kantara Initiative Work or Discussion Groups
• Developing and maintaining appropriate relationships and liaisons with other Kantara Work or Discussion Groups and external bodies, as deemed appropriate by the Work Group.
• Creation of supporting technical materials for market education and evangelism including, but not limited to, presentations, overviews, examples, etc..
• Oversee the contribution of proposed Client Specifications developed to an existing Standards Setting Organizations.

(3) SCOPE: 

The Clients Work Group is chartered to:

• Ensure that Client Specifications evolve in way that fosters potential harmonization and convergence with related industry technical efforts.
• Develop and deliver supporting technical documentation for market education/evangelism
• Reference technical work in external, vendor neutral industry groups and bodies
• Establish liaison relationships with appropriate external, vendor neutral industry groups and bodies to ensure Work Group requirements and specifications are understood, addressed and submitted to the appropriate Standards Setting Organization
• Strive to ensure that the work within the Work Group does not duplicate or conflict with the relevant work of other external, vendor neutral industry group and standards organizations.

(4) DRAFT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS: 

The following specs would be submitted as a set to a, likely new, TC within OASIS

Advanced Client Technical Overview

IdP Service Specification

Provisioned Module Manager Service Specification (PMM)

Provisioned Module Service Specification (PM)

Attestation Service Specification

(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS: 

Possible white paper or usage guidelines and policy to support the Clients WG work.

(6) LEADERSHIP: 

Conor P. Cahill, Intel, proposed Chair

(7) AUDIENCE: 

The audience for this Work Group includes providers developing identity based services making use of client devices in a federated environment.

(8) DURATION: 

The Kantara Initiative Leadership Council charters the Clients Work Group for five years. It may be amended from time to time, with changes approved by the Leadership Council. This charter will expire on 9/2014 or upon submission and acceptance of the draft technical specifications into the proposed standards body.

(9) IPR POLICY: 

• Option Liberty

(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.

(11) CONTRIBUTIONS (optional):

Liberty Alliance  will contribute the Advanced Client Specification Set as well as the Robust Client MRD to the Clients Work Group.

(12) PROPOSERS: 

• Conor P. Cahill, Conor.P.Cahill -at- intel.com,  Intel Corporation
• Hubert Le Van Gong, Sun Microsystems
• George Fletcher, AOL