Proposed Charter: External Identities Working Group
Name
External Identities Working Group
Sponsor
TBD
Group Leader (Chair)
Paul Caskey (UT System) <pcaskey@utsystem.edu>
Mission/Goals
(stated broadly) Moving towards the goal of making external identities as useful and trusted as those managed internally
The mission of the External Identities Working Group includes:
- Exploring/developing deployment models for using external identities in a variety of risk profiles
- Identifying and examining the components which are needed to make external identities useful across a broad array of services
- Exploring account linking
- Understanding differences between external identities and locally assigned identities
- Exploring approaches to raising the trust associated with external identities (references to other work on trust elevation, e.g. OASIS Trust Elevation Subcommittee)
Membership
Membership in the subcommittee is open to all interested parties. Members join the subcommittee by joining the mailing list, phone calls, and otherwise participating actively in the work of the subcommittee.
The chair of the working group is selected by group members.
Deliverables
- Update (and make current) the set of use cases developed by the Social Identities WG.
- Develop a risk profile framework to evaluate risk within typical campus applications and to help campuses evaluate the use of social identity providers with those situations.
- Technical requirements for Interop/deployment profile for OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Creation of an external identities chart explaining different implementation models
- Properties of an identity in a context or transaction that can be specified technically which help determine how much assurance to assign
Expected End Date
The working group is expected to complete all deliverables and either close or recharter.
Required Resources
- wiki space
- phone line for conference calls: usual Internet2 conference call line
- incommon.org group email list socialidentity@internet2.edu