projects have addressed and are
addressing a vertical approach to
identity management, as well as
how to leverage Identity
technologies as an enabling
technology for convergence
EU ICT FP7 project SWIFT
Terminal: the device which has direct contact to the user
Access Point: logical entry point of the terminal in the network
Network Access Router: higher level functions of network access
Session Admission Controller: generalized name for session control functions
Authentication Server: provides user virtual identity recognition
Attribute Server: virtual identity attribute storage and management server
Identity Aggregator: identity aggregation functions for hierarchical deployment
Discovery Server: identity and service information directory and search functions
Federation Manager: cross domain information exchange negotiation functions
Data Gateway: cross domain information exchange and transformation functions
Certification Authority: root of trust
Identity Lifecycle Manager: identity information management
Charging Manager: accounting, charging and billing functions
Application Server: service provisioning
EU ICT FP7 project SWIFT
Digital Shadow
Represents the entity’s uses and sessions, and
contains the required information and the endpoint
devices in the communication and service provisioning
Projection of a virtual identity
A virtual identity is a sub-set of the
digital information about a user
Entity
Representations of entities of all kinds as the end points of communication