Liberty Telecommunications SIG Charter
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Description and Goals
The Telecommunications SIG is responsible for:
- Definition and recommendations of the use of identity-information, transactions and interactions in the telecommunications space in order to develop best practice materials based on Liberty offerings
- Advocating for use of Liberty’s specs and protocols in the telco sector
- Drive communication between Liberty members and pertinent industry associations, standardization fora or companies
- Discuss Liberty’s role in the telco space
- Drive awareness of other telco work and standardization fora to Liberty and vice versa for potential utilization in specs and protocols, as well as other Framework deliverables
- Act as forum to reconcile fragmented industry efforts in telco spec development regarding identity management space
- SIG will drive public-facing opportunities to begin dialogue
- SIG will analyze gaps and/or hurdles in the marketplace
Scope
The Telecommunications SIG is chartered to:
- Provide Liberty with subject matter expertise with respect to telecommunications and identity
- Become a discussion forum and a working group issuing guidelines for telecommunications-specific aspects of the Liberty Alliance and identity space
- Provide an information sharing and feedback forum for both members and non-members with an interest in identity-based services in the telecommunications space, and to communicate core findings of the SIG as well as the guidelines this SIG will issue, to the relevant Liberty Alliance organizational entities (Expert/Services Groups, Management Board, Liberty staff)
- Where appropriate, take part in the identification and planning of industry events, providing input to marketing to execute in these arenas
- Where appropriate, provide input to telecommunications-focused Liberty-internal and external activities (such as other standardization for a), including, but not limited to, policy and marketing recommendations.
- To provide inputs for external communications, such as collateral materials and contributed articles
- To provide Liberty with spokespersons on telecommunications-related topics related to the Liberty agenda
Criteria for Success
- Sufficient participation from members and non-members alike.
- Engagement with external groups (e.g., OMA, 3GPP, Mobile Payments Forum) via Liaison Process and outreach to new members for participation in workshops
Duration
The Telecommunications SIG is chartered by the Liberty Management Board to begin its work effective September 30, 2008, with no expiration date pre-defined, noting that the charter may be amended from time to time if needed.
Resource Requirements
The Working Group requires the following support from the Liberty Alliance organization:
- Mail lists established, with archives, on the public pages with a dedicated section of the public wiki
- Globally available conference call facilities (including local toll free numbers), with a dedicated conference call access code not shared by other SIG's or Expert Groups, to allow for maximum flexibility in scheduling teleconferences.
- Ability to delegate tasks to appointed Program Management Office staff including, but not limited to, management of mail lists, provisioning and deprovisioning of accounts, arrangement of conference call and/or WebEx facilities, and other administrative support that would serve to improve and/or accelerate the work of the SIG.
Active member participants in the SIG are expected to:
- Contribute relevant use cases and constructive feedback
- Drive and actively participate in e-mail discussions, teleconferences, and in-person meetings as may be called from time to time by the Chair(s) of the SIG.
SIG Meetings
The SIG will primarily communicate using the e-mailing lists, and conference calls, and/or webcast. A SIG open mailing list and wiki section will be created.
Participants
Participation in the Telecommunications SIG is open to the general public.
Upon formation of this SIG a call for participation will be sent out to Liberty mailing lists (both internal and public).
To meet the requirements of the SIG Policy by documenting at least three Liberty member organizations are requesting the formation of this SIG, the founding participants of the Telecommunications SIG are provided below:
- France Telecom/Orange
- Ericsson
- Symlabs
- NEC
