The research was centred around the audit process of current Identity Management practices at the 10 project's partners institutions.
The list of audit topics:
- credential management
- certificate management
- attribute stores and uses
- handling of identity for "non-standard" individuals (i.e. not classed as staff or student)
- handling of prior ID discovery for new users
- identity security and privacy assurance policies
- requirements for use of credentials
- single institution and cross institution Virtual Organisations and tools
- collaborative learning
- integrating UK HE identity management with other communities (including NHS, overseas integration requirements)
- personal Identity Management and managing identity across institutional boundaries (cross-affiliation)