2009-Q4 Report - Consumer Identity WG

2009-Q4 Report - CIWG WG

Date submitted: 27 Jan 2010

Officer positions:

• Chair: Bob Pinheiro
• Vice-Chair:
• Co-Chairs:
• Editor:

Participation:

• Total participants: 33
  • Voting: 13
  • Non-voting: 20
• Total email list subscribers: 58

Meetings:

• Published meeting frequency: (e.g. weekly telecons, every other week, etc.)
• Teleconferences held this quarter: 2
  • Quorate teleconferences: 0
• Physical meetings this quarter: 0
  • Quorate physical meetings: 0

Deliverables: (e.g., revised or new; you can optionally list details in sub-bullets)

• Draft specifications produced this quarter: 0
• Reports produced this quarter: 0

Deadlines in the next quarter:

• Expiration of group leadership positions: (e.g. annual chair election)
• Deadlines listed in the group charter: (e.g. duration expiration)
• Group-imposed deadlines: (e.g. date by which a report was intended to be published)

Liaison activity updates:

• (e.g. any notable cross-group activity)

Other comments:

• Participants were polled (via email) about their interests regarding consumer identity topics, as well as the degree to which participants might be able to contribute to WG outputs. Topics of interest include strong authentication, mobile consumer devices, potential consumer use of various forms of smart cards, business value of high assurance digital identities for consumers, privacy aspects of consumer identity, US government's Open Identity initiative, user experience and customization of consumer identities, and consumer identity for electronic health records.  However, in order for the WG to produce meaningful outcomes that address these topics, it's become clear that a strict reliance on the contributions of volunteer participants will not sufficient.  The Chair is therefore exploring potential opportunities for funding and collaboration that can help support activities to address these topics and generate useful WG outputs.