Liberty Volunteered Personal Information SIG Charter
VOLUNTEERED PERSONAL INFORMATION (VPI) SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP CHARTER GROUP TYPE: OPEN PUBLIC SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP OPERATING WITHOUT CONFIDENTIALITY, FULL PARTICIPATION OPEN TO NON-LIBERTY MEMBERS . DATE: OCTOBER 2, 2008
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1. Description
Project VRM wishes to build a framework around which a new type of personal information can be enabled to flow, and in doing so improve the relationship between demand and supply. Our contention (currently subject to a significant research study), is that when individuals are forced to sign organization-centric privacy policies/ terms of use then this places limitations on the information that will be shared. If such constraints were removed, and safeguards built on the side of the individual, then new, rich data will flow – including actual demand data (as opposed to derived/ predicted demand). The goal of this SIG is to identify and document the use cases that illustrate the various sub-sets of volunteered personal information, the benefits therein, and set out the policy and technology enablers that must be put in place to enable this information to flow.
2. Scope
The founding SIG participants recognize that deployers are working in an ever-evolving heterogeneous environment that requires interoperability of identity services (i.e. identity- and SOA-enabled applications), both internal and external to the enterprise. In order to advance the identity-enabled marketplace -- specifically application domains that rely upon identity-based web services -- this SIG is chartered to:
- Become an active public discussion forum for the collection, development, and analysis of use cases that are met by the emerging concept of Volunteered Personal Information.
- Develop a detailed public roadmap that provides recommended next actions to make the concept of Volunteered Personal Information a reality within 12 months.
- Foster awareness of and participation in this effort from the broadest stakeholder cross-section possible, both the near-term use case phase taking place in this SIG, the mid-term specification and practical framework build phase, and the long-term adoption of the newly emerged Volunteered Personal Information.
3. Criteria for Success
- Sufficient participation from experts, including: private individuals (or groups able to represent this viewpoint), deployers, technology architects, policy designers, and other stakeholders both inside and outside the Liberty membership.
- Engaged, collegial analysis of the use cases and technical roadmap for protocol harmonization next steps.
- Vital activity including a demonstrated ability to meet self-imposed deadlines, meetings that meet quorum, active public email discussions, and consistent participation from a critical mass of contributors to maintain continuity.
- Effective at moving the harmonization effort from early-stage use case analysis and road map discussions into the appropriate technical forum(s) in an expedient manner.
4. Duration
The Volunteered Personal Information SIG is chartered by the Liberty Management Board to begin its work effective October 16, 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 SIGs 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 that help map an overall framework solution.
- 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.
5. SIG meetings
The Volunteered Personal Information 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.
6. Participants
Participation in the Volunteered Personal Information 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 Volunteered Personal Information SIG are provided below:
- British Telecom
- J. Trent Adams (individual contributor)
- Mydex Community Interest Company
- Sun Microsystems
- Zenn New Media
