The work covers transport and services strata (in ITU terms) and all related ISO/OSI layers, with the user’s identity being intrinsic to the control, data and management plane protocols. Specifically, technological advances and breakthroughs will be targeted for the following:

1. Vertical integration of identity, privacy, trust and security across layers: Protocols, addressing schemes and inter-layer interfaces that provide controlled privacy for the user.
2. New identity-centric user schemes supporting different levels of information access control, both policy as well as credential-based with well-defined privacy rules about who can change or even knows the data handled.
3. Methods and techniques on how users are identified and located on the one hand, but may remain pseudonymous at all layers based on preferences set by the users and their context.
4. Identity-based mobility solution: Adaptation of mobility protocols to the user’s “moving identities” across devices, services and networks.
5. Semantic interoperability of eIdM systems – of legacy and possibly different national instances. Meta data model to deal with data sets used in IdM systems to support interoperability and to allow special characteristics such as user-dependent context that can be used in real time.
6. An Identity Management Platform providing a common framework and APIs for accessing identity attributes across services and networks in a controlled way enabling user privacy mechanisms including specific APIs, such as for an Identity Broker.
7. Mapping new identity techniques to existing technology (SIM cards, etc), and eIdM and AAA solutions to accommodate Identity Management. Specification and validation of extensions / modifications of existing ones to support SWIFT vision
8. Techniques for name and identifier resolution across very heterogeneous namespaces.
9. Contribution to the standardization and ongoing work in ETSI, IETF, ITU, to include SWIFT identity approach at the different layers to go beyond the existing solutions.
10. Key principles of SWIFT should remain applicable universally independent of the evolution of networks in the FMC or future internet context.