Information Card Foundation Charter at Identity Commons
The Identity Commons Steward for the Information Card Foundation is Drummond Reed.
Purpose: Advance the use of the Information Card metaphor as a key component of an open, interoperable, royalty-free, user-centric identity layer spanning both the enterprise and the Internet.
Principles:
This working group will operate by the Identity Commons principles, along with the following general principles:
- Distributed architectures
- User-centricity
- Open source, non-proprietary infrastructure
- Open data standards
- Secure personal data store with access via i-cards of specific claim subsets as permitted by the user.
The Information Card Foundation publishes on its website its operating principles. These were derived to be consistent with the Principles of Identity published by the the international organization OECD. Only principles of identity that can be expressed in software will be considered in scope.
Provide an IP-safe zone for industry collaboration on open implementations.
Practices
The following practices are to be followed by this Foundation:
- Create and fund working groups to address specific issues requiring industry-wide participation and disband them when they complete their mission.
- Create a robust website that will provide:
- report news and developments
- a schedule of upcoming events that support, promote information cards
- policy and code to solve specific problems- information card downloadable plug-ins
- lists of companies that support information card on their sites
- lists of identity providers supporting information cards
- organize meetings
- provide info on:
- how to use information cards
- how to get your own
- how to be an identity provider
- how to become a relying party using information cards
- Wikis will be used for documents shared among members and committees
- Support and hold unconferences and conferences
- Meetings will be held both:
- face to face
- telcon
- blogs, im, twitters, rss feeds will be used and linked
- code development will be encouraged by providing samples, and holding contests to solve specific coding problems.
- There will be an IP Policy governing discussions under the following:
- code shared shall be considered open source to be distributed under EPL or Apache license terms unless otherwise specifically documented and controlled via NDAs signed in advance.
Requirements of Participation and How to Join
This working group will be organized as a 501c(6) non-profit corporation. Membership will be determined by the bylaws of the corporation, http://informationcard.net/foundation/official-documents Membership will be open to any individual or organization supporting informationcards and who pays their annual dues.
Membership in this working group is open to any individual or organization interested in the advancement of information cards. Organizations will be charged a fee relative to its size. Individuals will be able to register at the website.http://informationcard.net/foundation/how-to-join , or send email to membership@informationcard.net
