Lexicon

This first version of the Lexicon was developed by the Identity Gang community in to help develop a shared language. The following terms and definitions have been compiled since August 2005. See also Lexicon Goal and Lexicon Style Guide. Work began but was not completed on Lexicon v2.


 * 1) Agent
 * 2) Claim
 * 3) Claimant
 * 4) Digital Identity
 * 5) Digital Identity Provider
 * 6) Digital Subject
 * 7) Entity
 * 8) Identity Attribute
 * 9) Identity Context
 * 10) Party
 * 11) Persona
 * 12) Relying Party

Concept Map
The following diagram is a recent contribution that has not been reviewed/discussed on the identity gang list. It attempts to show the inter-relationship of the Lexicon concepts.

Related Work

 * 1) Anonymity, Unlinkability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management - A Consolidated Proposal for Terminology
 * 2) Modinis-IDM Common Terminological Framework for Interoperable Electronic Identity Management
 * 3) SAML 2.0 glossary
 * 4) OpenPrivacy.org definitions page
 * 5) PT Ong's glossary
 * 6) Stefan Brand's Primer--though more than a glossary this paper (also listed in [Reference Documents]) is helpful
 * 7) Digital Identity - Wikipedia entry
 * 8) Identity Concepts and Definitions, Dan Blum, Burton Group, --courtesy of Jamie Lewis (also listed [Reference Documents])
 * 9) ISO/ITU X.911 - definitions in section 6.5