Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Working Group

Overview
The Kantara Initiative Identity Assurance Working Group (IAWG) was created to foster the adoption of trusted on-line identity services. To advance this goal, the IAWG provide a forum for identifying and resolving obstacles to market and commercial acceptance that have limited broad deployment and adoption of trusted identity services thus far.

The first step will be development of a global standard framework and the necessary support programs for assessing identity service providers (IdSPs) against criteria that determine the level of assurance that a relying party (RP) may assume in evaluating identity claims provided by those IdSPs. The framework and processes will be defined in a way that scales, empowers business processes and benefits individual users of identity assurance services.