Trusted Identifiers in Cyberspace
Full Title or Meme
The core concepts as introduced by President Obama in NSTIC papers.
Context
About 7 years ago, the White House introduced The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), an initiative collaboratively bringing together the private sector, advocacy groups, public sector agencies and other organizations to improve the privacy, security and convenience of online transactions. The Identity Ecosystem envisioned in the NSTIC is an online environment where individuals and organizations are able to trust each other because they follow agreed-upon standards to obtain and authenticate their digital identities – and the digital identities of devices.
To achieve this objective, the NSTIC established guiding principles for the creation of an Identity Ecosystem, developed with identity solutions that are:
- Privacy-enhancing and voluntary;
- Secure and resilient;
- Interoperable; and
- Cost-effective and easy to use.
- Used as source of the principles for the Identity Ecosystem Framework (IDEF).
