- Scope
The scope of the Focus Group is Identity Management (IdM) for
telecommunications/ICT in general; and specifically to facilitate and
advance the development of a generic IdM framework and means of discovery of
autonomous distributed identities and identity federations and
implementations.
- Objectives
The objectives of this Focus Group include preparation of deliverables that
include:
- a living list of standards bodies, forums, and consortia dealing with
Identity Management, including information concerning their activities and
documents in the context of an IdM framework,
- a global analysis on IDM requirements and capabilities,
- a set of IdM telecommunications/ICT use cases that can be used to derive
requirements.
In carrying out these objectives, the Focus Group may analyze other
aspects related to the objectives (e.g., frameworks).
The term IdM is understood as "management by providers of trusted attributes
of an entity such as a subscriber, a device, or a provider". This is not
intended to indicate positive validation of a person.
The term of the Focus Group starts from the December 2006 SG 17 meeting and
runs to the next meeting of SG 17 September 2007. The Focus Group may be
renewed by SG 17.
- Leadership
Chairman: Abbie Barbir (Nortel)
Vice-Chairman: Richard Brackney (USA)
If needed, after the initial formation of the Focus Group, subsequent
management appointments will be made by the Focus Group. The intention is to
appoint additional Vice Chairmen from outside the ITU.
- Participation
The Focus Group exists to encourage participation by standard bodies,
organizations, developer forums involved in Identity Management worldwide,
including institutes, companies, experts and individuals who may not be
members of ITU. Participants may include individuals or organizational
representatives from ITU Study Groups, JCA-NID, ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27, OASIS,
Liberty Alliance, ETSI, Daidalos, Open Group, Shibboleth, OpenID, among
others.
A list of participants will be maintained and reported to SG 17.
- Financing
The Focus Group will be self-funded by its members.
- Administrative support
The TSB Secretariat will provide TIES support and website capabilities from
ITU-T headquarters.
- Meeting logistics
The frequency and location of meetings will be determined by the Focus
Group, and preferably will be held in conjunction with SG 17 and SG 13
meetings. Additional virtual and face-to-face meetings may be arranged as
needed to progress the work.
Electronic document handling will be used.
- Working language
The working language will be English.
- Technical contributions
Any Focus Group member may submit a technical contribution. An electronic
submission process will be used.
- Patent policy
The Focus Group will follow the ITU-T patent policy.
- Deliverables
As specified in the Terms of Reference.
- A living list of standards bodies, forums, and consortia dealing
with Identity Management, including information concerning their
activities and documents in the context of a generic IdM framework;
- A report on a global analysis on IdM requirements and capabilities;
- A report on use case scenarios that can be used to derive requirements
for the generic IdM framework;
Note: This will not duplicate or compete with the work on RFID/sensor
services already in progress in SG13 and currently being coordinated by JCA
N-ID.
- A document that develops a generic IdM Framework including generic data
models and related schemas; this includes identifying gaps in applicable
specifications of standards bodies, forums, and consortia working on
identity management; and
- A report on privacy guidelines and best practices; this includes
identifying gaps in applicable specifications of standards bodies, forums,
and consortia working on identity management.
- Approval of deliverables
The Focus Group will follow a consensus process.
- Distribution of documentation
The Focus Group will communicate via Email and documents will be posted on
its ITU-T web site.
- Working methods
The Focus Group will be contribution-driven. It will work electronically,
virtual meetings and by face-to-face meetings. Meetings will be held as
determined by the Focus Group and will be announced to its participants and
on the ITU-T website.
- Progress reports
As required by ITU-T procedures, the Focus Group will provide a written
report on its progress to each SG 17 meeting.
- Announcement of Focus Group formation
The formation of the Focus Group will be announced via ITU publications and
other means, including communication with other organizations and/or
experts, technical journals and the World Wide Web.
- Methodology
The Focus Group will generate a set of output documents (see clause 11). As
part of this effort the Focus Group will identify gaps in applicable
specifications of standards bodies, forums, and consortia working on
identity management and will work with the responsible standards bodies,
forums, and consortia to fill identified gaps to enhance the
interoperability/interworking of identity management systems of existing and
future service domains. The Focus Group should concentrate on technical
aspects relevant to the ITU-T and not duplicate work underway in ITU-T Study
Groups.
- Action plan
Preparation of the deliverables as specified in the Terms of Reference.
- Announcement of (through liaisons, announcement by ITU-T, etc.) the
Focus Group creation to interested parties (December 2006).
- Establish the Focus Group structure and additional working group chair
positions (February 2007).
- First meeting Focus Group target February 2007.
- Produce first draft of Living List (May 2007).
- Produce first draft of report on a global analysis on IdM requirements
and capabilities (June 2007).
- Produce first draft of report on use case scenarios that can be used to
derive requirements for the generic IdM framework (May 2007).
- Produce first draft of technical document that develops a generic IdM
Framework including generic data models and related schemas; this includes
identifying gaps in applicable specifications of standards bodies, forums,
and consortia working on identity management (July 2007).
- Produce first draft of report on privacy guidelines and best practices
(July 2007).
- Report to SG 17 (September 2007).
- Collaboration
Collaboration is essential to bring about more effective liaison and
information sharing on IdM among diverse telecommunications/ICT and
applications experts, and to facilitate the identification and development
of IdM requirements and specifications in ITU-T SG 17, SG 13, SG 2 and other
Study Groups. The Focus Group will encourage participation in this activity
by other standards organizations and development forums involved in Identity
Management. As stated before, participation is open to all interested
parties.
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