Earlier this year, I wrote in this blog about our project to plan a Backend Attribute Exchange (BAE) pilot, and I also explained some of the more technical concepts. Recently, our partners in this project at GSA wrote about it on their IDManagment.gov blog in a post, Shared Services and Government as Attribute Service Provider.

In building responsible information sharing, Identity Management means that we can validate our users and that they have the proper credentials, or attributes, to access the right information. It’s just like we follow a race car on the track full of competitors with its team name and number. Easy enough, right? Well not so fast, Mario Andretti!