Update - February 6, 2023
This material was incorproated into the FICAM Playbooks areas outlined below.
This site is now a public archive.
This work is in early Alpha stage and is led by the GSA FICAM Program in coordination with the ICAM Subcommittee of the Federal CIO Council.
This repository is for the collaborative development of the Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Federation Playbook. The content is supporting the creation and future versions of federation programmatic guidance, previously found in the FICAM Roadmap and Implementation Guidance v2.0, Section 12, and the FICAM Relying Party Guidance for Accepting Externally Issued Credentials.
Additional repositories are under development for contributors to share ICAM implementation guides, code, reference implementations, and solutions.
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April 2016 - September 2016
November 2017 - March 2018
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