An IANA Registry for Level of Assurance (LoA) Profiles
RFC 6711
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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) L. Johansson
Request for Comments: 6711 NORDUNet
Category: Informational August 2012
ISSN: 2070-1721
An IANA Registry for Level of Assurance (LoA) Profiles
Abstract
This document establishes an IANA registry for Level of Assurance
(LoA) Profiles. The registry is intended to be used as an aid to
discovering such LoA definitions in protocols that use an LoA
concept, including Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 and
OpenID Connect.
Status of This Memo
This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is
published for informational purposes.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Not all documents
approved by the IESG are a candidate for any level of Internet
Standard; see Section 2 of RFC 5741.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
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RFC 6711 LoA Registry August 2012
Table of Contents
1. Introduction ....................................................2
2. Name of Registry ................................................3
3. Registration Template ...........................................3
3.1. Example Registration .......................................4
3.2. Note on the Example ........................................5
4. Registration Policy .............................................5
4.1. Reviewer Expectations ......................................5
5. Registry Semantics ..............................................6
6. IANA Considerations .............................................6
7. Security Considerations .........................................7
8. Acknowledgements ................................................7
9. References ......................................................7
9.1. Normative References .......................................7
9.2. Informative References .....................................7
1. Introduction
This document establishes an IANA registry for Level of Assurance
(LoA) Profiles.
[SAML] provides the following definition of the concept of "level of
assurance":
Many existing (and potential) SAML federation deployments have
adopted a "levels of assurance" (or LOA) model for categorizing
the wide variety of authentication methods into a small number of
levels, typically based on some notion of the strength of the
authentication. Federation members (service providers or "relying
parties") then decide which level of assurance is required to
access specific protected resources, based on some assessment of
"value" or "risk".
Another definition of an "assurance level" is given in RFC 4949
[RFC4949], which also identifies the roots of such profiles in the
NIST special publication series, in particular SP 800-63 [SP63].
Level of Assurance Profiles are used in various protocols, including
the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) version 2.0 and OpenID
Connect.
Several so-called trust frameworks and identity federations now
exist, some of which define one or more LoAs. The purpose of this
specification is to create an IANA registry where such LoA
definitions can be discovered. While the quote above references
SAML, the notion of a level of assurance has gained widespread
acceptance and should be treated as a protocol-independent concept.
The newly created IANA registry attempts to reflect this.
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