Assurance

[Brett Bieber <>]

Greetings all,

I'd like to call upon the Research and Education Trust and Identity community to participate in the Public Call for Comments on the latest draft of the NIST Digital Identity Guidelines, aka 800-63-3.

InCommon and the broader Research and Education sector have significant reason to pay close attention to the standards used by our partners within the U.S. government. This type of standard has the potential to shape electronic identity assurance for many years to come, and our alignment and interoperability with these standards are critical to collaborating with government sectors and beyond our own geographical borders.

Additionally, the Research and Education communities have continued to increase identity assurance through the MFA Interoperability Profile, Baseline Expectations, Entity Categories, and SIRTFI. We have a significant body of work and experience to offer our fellow identity professionals, and the responsibility to ensure that our paths are aligned as much as possible.

Please consider submitting your feedback directly to NIST using their GitHub issue reporting system by March 31st, and/or to the Internet2 Trust and Identity Consultation Feedback page on the wiki by March 15th: https://spaces.internet2.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=108987144

The InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee will provide the Community Consultation feedback to NIST before the March 31st deadline.

Thanks,

-Brett

Brett Bieber

Chair of the InCommon Assurance Advisory Committee

Manager of Identity & Access Management

University of Nebraska-Lincoln