Purpose and Principles

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Purpose and Principles ("Charter")

CONCORDIA PROJECT CHARTER

Group: Open public working group, cross organizational

DATE: APRIL 24, 2007

1. Description and Goals

The Concordia Program is designed as an umbrella initiative to drive harmonization and interoperability of identity specifications and protocols. As expressed by the name (Roman goddess of agreement, understanding, and harmony), the goal of this group is to help drive the development of use-case scenarios where multiple identity specifications, standards and/or other initiatives might co-exist, recognizing heterogeneous deployment environments of the marketplace. Based on this open knowledge gathering process, the group recognizes that additional specifications, profiles and/or services may need to be defined.

The group's goals are as follows:

  • Drive development of a ubiquitous, interoperable, privacy-respecting layer for identity in order to:
    • Help drive deployment costs down
    • Assure implementers and deployers of better success and greater productivity
    • Lead to more commercial products and open source offerings, in turn leading to a healthy market
    • Facilitate new service offerings
  • Assure interoperability across this layer
    • Deliver confidence to implementers and deployers in implementing today with successful interoperability tomorrow
  • Encourage strong, cross-sector, cross-geography participation through an open development process

2. Scope

The Concordia Working Group recognizes that deployers are working in a constantly shifting heterogeneous environment. In order to advance the identity marketplace, there needs to be a conscientious effort to develop systems, devices, applications and identities that will successfully and seamlessly interoperate. As such, this Group is chartered to:

  • Become an active public discussion forum for the development, contribution and analysis of cross-protocol use cases for systems in a wide variety of vertical and horizontal deployment models.
  • Drive virtual and public events that allow for discussion and development of use cases and corresponding solutions
  • Develop, publish, and maintain a detailed roadmap to drive focused output

3. Criteria for Success

  • Sufficient participation from interested community experts, including Liberty members and non-members
  • Strong information sharing on use cases and constructive next steps for protocol development, etc, across the group
  • Regular meetings (phone and/or physical) to facilitate group communication, experience sharing and guidance

Active member participants in the Working Group are expected to:

  • Contribute relevant use cases and constructive feedback that help map an overall solution for harmonization between different protocols
  • Drive and actively participate in e-mail discussions, teleconferences, and related events.

4. Working Group meetings

The Concordia Working Group will primarily communicate using the e-mailing lists, and conference calls. See "Conference Call Information" below for schedule. A Working Group open mailing list (see below) and wiki (you're here!) has been created.

5. Membership

Membership in the Concordia Project Working Group is open to the general public.

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