Systemic Elements

This was drawn from a slide posted to the ITU-T IdM Focus Group by Abbie explaining the different elements of a global framework.

Discovery

• Root of Roots

• Well-known algorithms

• Search

• Legal-regulatory mandate

Entities

• persons (real and legal eg. organizations)

• Objects (real and virtual eg terminals, RFIDs, sensors, network elements, spacial, software)

Identifiers

• Identity assertion

• Access

• Resolvers (eg routing)

• Pseudonyms/nyms (including anonmyity)

• Geospacial

• Radio Freequency

Information Attributes

• profiles and directories

• Permissions

• Offerings

• Presence and availability

• IPR

• Accounting

Derivative Identity

• Protected discovery (eg logfile patterns, retained data, fraud management)

• Public discovery (eg www or spectrum searches)

Authentication and Trust

• Physical (biometric, tokens, objects)

• Virtual (passwords, digital certificates)

• Registration

• Trusted Third Party

• Federations and Circles of Trust

• User-centric architectures

• Trust metrics

• Privacy (eg. user preferences and audits)

• Life-cycle (eg. timestamps and timeframes)

• Repudiation.