!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] ([IAF]) is a Title used by several [Organizational Entities|Organizational Entity] all with different ideas.

!! [Liberty Alliance]
[{$pagename}] was work from [Liberty Alliance] began in [2008|Year 2008] which detailed four [Identity Assurance Level] designed to link trusted identity-enabled enterprise, social networking and [Web] [applications] together based on business rules and security risks associated with each level. 


!! [Kantara Initiative]
The [Kantara Initiative] [Identity Assurance Work Group] ([IAWG]) was formed to foster adoption of identity [trust] services.

[{$pagename}] which comprises several documents that detail the levels of [assurance], and the certification program that bring the [Framework] to the marketplace. The [IAF] comprises primary documents such as 
* Overview publication
* the [IAF] Glossary
* a summary [Assurance Levels] document
* an [Assurance] Assessment Scheme (AAS), which encompasses the associated assessment and certification program
as well as two secondary documents: 
* the Service Assessment Criteria (SAC), which establishes baseline criteria for general organizational conformity, identity proofing services, credential strength, and credential management services against which all CSPs will be evaluated; and 
* the Assessor Qualifications and Requirements which provides an [Kantara Initiative] Recommendation www.kantarainitiative.org overview of the requirements which applicant assessors must fulfill in order to become Kantara-Accredited Assessors. 

[Kantara Initiative] [{$pagename}] supports [NIST.SP.800-63-3] [Level Of Assurance]

!! More Information
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:
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* [#1] - [Liberty_Alliance|Wikipedia:Liberty_Alliance|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2015-04-29- 
* [#2] - [IDENTITY ASSURANCE|http://www.projectliberty.org/strategic_initiatives/identity_assurance/|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2015-07-02 
* [#2] - [Identity Assurance Framework|https://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/LC/Identity+Assurance+Framework|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2019-07-02