Open Identity Exchange

At the 2009 RSA Conference, the GSA sought to build a public/private partnership with the OpenID Foundation (OIDF) and the Information Card Foundation (ICF) to craft a workable identity information framework that would establish the legal and policy precedents needed to establish trust for Open ID transactions.

Further meetings were held at the Internet Identity Workshop in November 2009, resulting in OIDF and ICF forming a joint steering committee.

While direct trust agreements between relying parties and identity providers are a common solution, they become unmanageable at the scale of the Internet.

[6] OIXnet is an official, online, and publicly accessible repository of documents and information relating to identity systems and participants, referred to as a registry.

The OIXnet registry is designed to provide a single, comprehensive and authoritative location where documents and information relating to a specific purpose, such as identity systems, can be safely stored to notify others of certain facts.

The UK government's Cabinet Office joined the OIX at the board level, as it began the work on its Identity Assurance Programme, which is now GOV.UK Verify.

An ad hoc board of advisers was formed of independent, experienced, public and private sector leaders who addressed policy considerations during this transition process.

[citation needed] The OIX White Papers deliver joint research to examine a wide range of challenges facing the open identity market and to provide possible solutions.

OIX White Papers are intended to deliver value to the identity ecosystem and take one of two perspectives: a retrospective report on the outcome of a given project or pilot or a prospective discussion on a current issue or opportunity.

OIX White Papers are authored by independent domain experts and are intended as summaries for a general business audience.

[22] This is a 3-year project that started in September 2016 and is partially funded from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under G.A.

The UK Government's Cabinet Office joined the OIX at board level as it began the work on its Identity Assurance Programme (IDAP).