B.C. Identity Management Forum

Overview
The '''[http://www.cio.gov.bc.ca/cio/idim/idm_forum.page? B.C. Identity Management Forum]''', established by the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), has developed a set of requirements, and a conceptual architecture for identity management which include:


 * a user-centric architecture where identity information passes through the user at the initiation of the user,
 * privacy best practices,
 * a security gradient,
 * authoritative sources of identity claims, and
 * loose coupling of architecture components to allow the system to scale.

The result is a claims-based approach to identity management involving three key actors:


 * the authoritative party (an authority over a given identity attribute),
 * the relying party (that needs to receive proof of the identity attribute), and
 * the identity agent for the person who is attempting to interact with the relying party.