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One can envisage several ecosystem domains with different governing rules and policies, while using the same technical credential/identity information systems.
In the GEANT context, GEANT selected and accepted as experienced and globally trusted operating authority in the education and research world therefore GEANT would be the most suitable candidate to play this role in this new environment. In any case, GEANT would not be the only governing authority, but DID allows several federation to exist various ecosystems.
Several examples for ecosystem governace:
- standards for international passports governed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which includes documents such as Doc 9303 Machine Readable Travel Documents, the technical standard for machine-readable passports (this example cited in Trustoverip white paper) [1] https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/uploads/Introduction-to-ToIP-V2.0-2021-11-17.pdf
- The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is a standards organization that oversees global IP address allocation, autonomous system number allocation, root zone management in the Domain Name System (DNS), media types, and other Internet Protocol–related symbols and Internet numbers. IANA itself governed by Internet Society with a mission to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world
- Outside of identitity governance but International System of Units (SI) is good example of ecosystems governance . SI provides the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement which workinf by defining constants, base units, derived units, prefixes, and realisation of certain units. It is governed by three international organisations General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM).
- Also outside of identitz governance but all the technical standardisation bodies are also good examples of ecoszstems governance. IETF, IEEE, ETSI, ITU-T are governed by major players of relevant ecosystems, and they are implementing standard based on consensus.
- eduGAIN, eduroam and REFEDS - extend.
In the GÉANT context, GÉANT selected and accepted as experienced and globally trusted operating authority in the education and research world therefore GÉANT would be the most suitable candidate to play this role in this new environment. In any case, GÉANT would not be the only governing authority, but DID allows several federation to exist various ecosystems. The role of GÉANT in the global R&E sector ecosystem:
- Solutions: Enabler for "Digital mobility" in the greater European area with an ambition to offer federated solutions scaling beyond Europe on a global scale
- Governance: Maintainer of governance processes to govern the "digital mobility" solutions above. It's main instrument of GÉANT is its membership represented in the GA of GÉANT.
- Global liaisons with a grain of "governor of last resort": Liaising with organisations in other world regions with a similar remit than GÉANT, but also taking care for "underserved" regions or helping regions with emerging structures to establish their own governance.
Transformative aspects
The participating actors in ToIP will be much more diverse than in the GEANT GÉANT federated system. Their interests will also be different to those restricted to education and research in the current GEANT GÉANT global environment. Confidentiality and Data Privacy protection policies and rules may also differ among the actors in this diversified environment.
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- It can be used for built educational and research potfolio portfolio much easier.
- Can be used for build legally binding signature schemes for research and educational environment
- Increase level of assurance in various identification scenarios with combining various identification sources via user interactions
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Also due to complexity of the ecosystem NRENs and GEANT GÉANT might lose their users.
Notes from f2f meeting
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