The inaugural meeting of the iGov Working Group took place on Wednesday, January 14th where three co-chairs were elected by acclamation. John Bradley of Ping Identity, Paul Grassi of the US NIST and Adam Cooper of the UK Cabinet Office Identity Assurance Program are the elected co-chairs. Acclamation may be a bit strong describing an electoral process closer to being shanghaied. All the same, all of us know leadership is a classic  key success factor.

However leaders emerge, they are essential to success especially in the "sausage making" of standards development. The configuration of iGOV's leadership is intentional. The leaders map onto the WG's mission: John's Chilean/Canadian identity together with his unique technical chops; together with Paul Grassi's past pedigree and present position in the US Government; together with Adam Cooper's architectural expertise than stretches into European standards and schemes form iGOV's leadership team. 

Leaders lead and we look to these men to manage the process and lead work group contributors to a common goal. Please consider joining this effort. The work group's goal is to have a common deployment profile that can be customized for the needs of both pubic and private sector deployments in multiple jurisdictions that may require the higher levels of security and privacy protections that OpenID Connect currently supports. The resulting profile's goal is to enable users to authenticate and share consented attribute information with public sector services across the globe. 

The full draft charter is available at http://openid.net/igov-wg-draft-charter/.