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30-day Public Review for Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Framework V1.0

The OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) TC [1] members have recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 30-day public review:

Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Framework Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
12 December 2013

Specification Overview:

This document is a specification that recommends particular methods as satisfying defined degrees of assurance for elevating trust in an electronic identity credential, to assure the submitter’s identity sufficiently to support elevation between each pair of assurance levels to transact business where material amounts of economic value or personally identifiable data are involved.

Alternative and optional methods may be included. The description of each recommended method shall include functional definitions of the types of identity and assertion data employed by each method, and may include specification of the data services required in each elevation, substantive data exchange patterns or models, message exchange patterns or models, and such other elements as the TC deems useful.

TC Description:

The OASIS Trust Elevation TC works to define a set of standardized protocols that service providers may use to elevate the trust in an electronic identity credential presented to them for authentication. The Trust Elevation TC is intended to respond to suggestions from the public sector, including the U.S. National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The Trust Elevation TC promotes interoperability among multiple identity providers–and among multiple identity federations and frameworks–by facilitating clear communication about common and comparable operations to present, evaluate and apply identity [data/assertions] to sets of declared authorization levels.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 22 January 2014 at 00:00 GMT and ends 20 February 2014 at 23:59 GMT.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/trust-el/trust-el-framework/v1.0/csprd01/trust-el-framework-v1.0-csprd01.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/trust-el/trust-el-framework/v1.0/csprd01/trust-el-framework-v1.0-csprd01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/trust-el/trust-el-framework/v1.0/csprd01/trust-el-framework-v1.0-csprd01.pdf

ZIP distribution file (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/trust-el/trust-el-framework/v1.0/csprd01/trust-el-framework-v1.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/trust-el/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page, or directly at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=trust-el

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/trust-el-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of “Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Framework Version 1.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods (Trust Elevation) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/trust-el/

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/trust-el/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
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