Liberty Identity Theft SIG Charter

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Group: Cross organizational, vertically focused

DATE: APRIL 20, 2007

1. Description and Goals
The Identity Theft Prevention SIG exists for Discussion of identity-based crime as a whole, creating a forum for industry recommendations and action (eg. identity theft, identity fraud, etc). Specific goals include:

  • Generation of best practice guidelines/suggestions/technical recommendations to feed into appropriate Liberty Alliance expert groups and other interested community bodies
  • Generation of a taxonomy for defining ID Theft and application of Liberty (current and potential futures) to various elementsDefining opportunities in deploying appropriate technical and policy solutions to help mitigate identity theft
  • Serving as a community body for discussion and upleveled awareness of solutions (existing and potential) for ID theft/fraud protection or mitigation
  • Serving as experts on ID Theft with clearly articulated messages
  • Providing education to businesses and the people they serve regarding ID theft (both members and non-members)
  • Serving as a catalyst for responsible development, maintenance and implementation of identity infrastructure, from both a policy and a technical perspective


2. Scope
The Identity Theft Prevention SIG is chartered to:

  • Provide subject matter expertise with respect to identity theft and methods that lead to identity theft
  • Become a forum for identity theft-specific discussions of interest to the public community
  • Where appropriate, take part in the identification and planning of identity theft industry events

3. Criteria for Success

  • Sufficient participation from interested community experts, including Liberty members and non-members
  • Strong information sharing on identity theft topics across the group
  • Regular meetings (phone and/or physical) to facilitate group communication, experience sharing and guidance

4. Duration
The Identity Theft Prevention SIG is chartered by the Liberty Management Board. It may be amended from time to time.

Resource Requirements The SIG requires the following support from the Liberty organization:

  • Mail lists established, with archives, on the public pages with a dedicated wiki
  • Globally available conference call facilities, with a dedicated conference call number which all participants can access
  • Ability to delegate tasks to appointed Program Management office including, but not limited to, management of the mail lists, registration/retirement of participants, and arranging of conference call facilities for external and internal use

Active member participants in the SIG are expected to:

  • Actively participate and drive the e-mail discussions, teleconferences, and identity theft-related events.
  • Collaborate and provide identity theft expertise to other Liberty entities as requested.

5. SIG meetings
The Identity Theft Prevention SIG will primarily communicate using the e-mailing lists and conference calls. A SIG open mailing list and wiki has been created.

6. Memberships
Membership in the Identity Theft Prevention SIG is open to the general public.

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