OSSI Charter

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(1) WORK GROUP NAME:

The WG name, acronym and abbreviation must not include trademarks not owned by the Organization, or content that is infringing, harmful, or inappropriate. The below is just a suggestion. 

Open Source Support Initiative Work Group (OSSIWG)

(2) PURPOSE:

Open Source Software share common benefits with open specifications and open standards. They are all business enablers by acting for interoperability and knowledge sharing. This matches the perspectives of Kantara Initiative. This workgroup appears as a necessary Kantara Initiative effort to reach the Initiative’s ambition.

This workgroup will be in charge of promoting the functional open source implementations related to digital identity management and the associated paradigms (e.g., privacy and trust). The workgroup will also collect expectations and recommendations around open source, especially from other Kantara workgroups as the eGovernment and Telecommunications Identity Work Groups. Finally, the workgroup will highlight the missing open source implementations the most needed.

(3) SCOPE AND DEFINITION OF WORK::

  • Initiate the bridge between the Kantara Initiative and the open source actors:
    • Reference open source software related to identity management in the scope of the Kantara Initiative.
    • Advertise the open source software referenced.
    • Advertise to open source actors the public technological results of the Kantara Initiative work groups and encourage open source implementation of prototypes (for instance in administrations and universities).
    • Facilitate the contact between identity architects and standards issuers and open source actors.
  • Promote the propagation of standards with open source software:
    • Highlight the certified software.
    • Contribute to the process of certification of open source implementations (e.g., help in setting-up an online testing platform?)
    • Promote that funding for open source software is a business enabler that does not disserve proprietary implementations.
    • Define how open source software can be related to Identity Trust and Assurance Framework.
  • Be a transversal workgroup into Kantara Initiative to collect information and redistribute information:
    • Collect expectations and recommendations around open source, especially from other Kantara Initiative work groups - eGovernment and Telecommunications Identity.
    • Highlight the missing open source implementations that are most needed.
    • Provide a framework to make Kantara Initiative members share information and plan common development projects around open source software.
    • Provide an informal support to Kantara Initiative actors interested in contributing to open source software, opening close code or initiating an open source project (e.g., help in choosing the right open source license).
  •  Promote that open source software can increase the user trustworthiness in identity-related digital technologies.

(4) DRAFT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

  • Draft technical specifications are outside the scope of this work group.

(5) OTHER DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS AND PROJECTED COMPLETION DATES) DRAFT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

  • The WG will publish and maintain a quarterly activity report setting out its planned deliverables and stakeholder engagement program.
  • White Papers and Framework Documents for public disseminations such as:
    • Informal evaluation of functional open source software related to identity and in the scope of the Kantara Initiative.
      • Provide a means for an easy objective evaluation. With that, we could issue basic software evaluation guides.
      • Allow subjective evaluations like recommendations done by Kantara Initiative members.
    • A small open source license guide.
    • Make synthesis from discussions of the work group on the work groups list serve, from evaluations and from any other activity of the work group to issue a white paper on Digital Identity and Open Source.
  • Stakeholder meetings such as:
    • Regular advisory event to solicit strategic guidance.
    • Face-to-face work group meeting (one time per year).

(6) LEADERSHIP: Proposed WG Chair and Editor(s), subject to confirmation by a vote of the work group participants.:

  • Mikaël Ates, Research Engineer, Entr'ouvert (Free Software Editor)

(7) AUDIENCE:

All Kantara Initiative members and others interested in digital identity and open source software.

(8) DURATION:

Not limited.

(9) IPR POLICY:

Kantara Initiative IPR Policies: Option Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike.

(10) RELATED WORK AND LIAISONS:

  • Kantara Initiative members and workgroups.
  • Open source actors.

(11) CONTRIBUTIONS:

A list of contributions that the proposers anticipate will be made to the work group.

  • Public software evaluation.* List of missing implementations.
  • A white paper on Digital Identity and Open Source.

(12) PROPOSERS:

Names, email addresses, and any constituent affiliations of at least the minimum set of proposers required to support forming the work group.

This is a list of individuals and organizations who have expressed a willingness to support the work group formation and, as a first step, have been invited to review the draft charter. This 'charter group' will also be invited to nominate other candidate participants from the regulatory and policymaker communities. That will be followed by a broader membership drive once the charter has been accepted.

  • Mikaël Ates, Research Engineer, Entr'ouvert
  • Lucy Lynch, Director, Internet Society Internet Society
  • Colin Wallis, Identity Standards Manager, Department of Internal Affairs of New Zealand
  • Fulup Ar Foll, Identity Architect, Oracle
  • Scott Cantor, Engineer-Identity Architect, Internet2
  • Sampo Kellomäki, Engineer-Identity Architect, Levelview