Joint Meeting Q3 - IAWG, HIAWG, P3WG, AMDG

GroupGoals
IAWG

The IAWG's goal is to provide public and private sector organizations with well-defined means of relying on identity credentials and assertions issued by a variety of identity service providers for both authentication and authorization, in order to advance trusted identity federation and thereby facilitate broad user acceptance. In line with this goal, here is IAWG’s scope:

  • Define standards and frameworks for identity assurance policy for both the public and private sectors at a global scale
  • Promote wider use of identity credentials at various LOA.
  • Analyze technology, policies, standards, and solutions relating to identity federation and identity assurance.
  • Identify opportunities where adoption of the IAF could save time and resources in implementing identity federations
  • Formulate pragmatic guidelines, recommended practices, proposed deployment models and methodologies for organizations to adopt solutions and approaches to online services that leverage identity assurance
  • Seek harmonization and standardization – avoid "re-inventing the wheel" or needlessly duplicating effort by identifying best practices across multiple industry sectors in this globally diverse working group and investing in productive liaison relationships across industries and geographies.
HIAWG

The goal of this activity is to engage the broadest community participation to facilitate the adoption of the reference implementations and specifications by the healthcare industry, worldwide.Specific goals of this group are to:

  • Develop a reference implementation for consumer access, using open source solutions.
  • Develop a reference implementation for healthcare workers access to critical health information using open source solutions.
  • Review and endorse an identity assurance framework to support secure information sharing between authenticated individuals and systems to support HIEs and NHIN.
  • Recommend all or parts of these systems to be integrated with the emerging US Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) being developed by the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Offices of the National Coordinator.
  • Educate the community on how the system should operate and how such a system should function.
  • Work with the vendor community to ensure interoperability between systems.
P3WGThe purpose of this Work Group is to:
  • Become an active convening authority for privacy and public policy work - including productive engagement with the CPO, policymaker, regulatory and adoption communities.
  • Liaise and work with other Kantara groups to represent the privacy and public policy perspective, and to serve as an ongoing point of reference for privacy/policy-related questions. 
  • Lead work to define and develop Privacy Management and Privacy Assurance deliverables which complement Kantara's initiatives in Identity Assurance and Identity Governance.
  • Liaise and work with projects and organisations outside Kantara to further the same objectives.
AMDG

The purpose of this Discussion Group is to: 

  • IDENTIFY: Consensus on a working definition of "Attribute" for purposes of fulfilling further bullets below.
  • IDENTIFY: Kantara Initiative stakeholder requirements regarding Attribute Management.
  • DISCOVER: Attribute Management activities under development both internal and external to Kantara Initiative.
  • GAP ANALYSIS: Attribute Management KI stakeholder requirements compared to work under development (both internal and external to KI)
  • RECOMMEND: scope of work, potential KI adoption of external works, collaboration with external organizations and/or new WG in KI to perform design phase of Attribute Management based on requirements, discovery and gap analysis.

Areas of consideration include Attribute:

  • Assurance
  • Schema
  • Provisioning
  • Binding
  • Privacy (Notice, Choice and Control, Correction/Redress)

Related to the commonality in verticals including:
- Finance, Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Jurisdictional, etc