Identity Management Standards

The Identity Management Strategy Group (IMSG) comprising senior officials from across Government and chaired by Sir David Normington, the Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, is preparing a delivery plan for the cross-Government identity management strategy.

A key component of this work programme is the establishment of a comprehensive set of identity management standards. This will be delivered by the cross-Government Identity Management Standards Group to be set up in the Autumn.

On 20th July the EURIM Personal Identity and Data Sharing Group met with the Identity and Passport Service to discuss how to support this work. Five subgroups were created to allow experts from the public, private and third sector to input to the cross-Government Identity Management Standards Group, with whom EURIM will be working closely. The subgroups will work on overall scoping, technical standards, data standards, process standards and identity assurance standards.

From July 2007, LeGSB have been chairing the ''Overall Scoping' subgroup, looking at how 'standards' should be devised to underpin the implementation of Identity Management across the UK.

Participants to the sub group have been drawn from

Civil Servants from contributing Departments
Local Government
and Industry.

At the first meeting of the group on 23rd August 2007, the group refined the proposed Terms of Reference to ...

To explore how standards applied to Identity Management can progress the Transformational aspirations of various sectors of the Public Sector, and deliver better outcomes for citizens, and the private sector.
To support and inform the work of the other Sub Groups by

Working up a set of common processes and information flows, illustrating how they may be applied to a number of ‘actors’.

To map out how a series of standards might complement each to achieve each of the processes, as the basis for a gap analysis.

To raise the need for standards to be sustained, tested and accredited, to bring confidence to those that will rely on them.

To bring forward some examples of real initiatives or projects that would benefit from Identity Management Standards, and propose what the benefits might be

The other sub groups will therefore

be provided with a list of activities for which a standard should exist.

be provided with a list of scenarios and asked to demonstrate how the standards that they propose would meet that challenge

be provided with a list of known initiatives and asked to consider how the standards that they propose would ‘fit’.

Terms and Conditions