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To support E-Government activities, ICAM aims to leverage industry-based credentials that citizens already have for other purposes. In order to ensure these credentials are trustworthy, the government requires processes to assess these credentialing processes against federal requirements as codified by OMB, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and GSA. These processes, codified as Trust Frameworks, include requirements for the credentials and their issuance, privacy requirements, as well as auditing qualifications and processes. Given that industry-based frameworks to assess the trustworthiness of electronic credentials already exist and can be leveraged by the government, this approach enables a scalable model for extending identity assurance across a broad range of citizen and business needs.
ICAM defines a process whereby the government can assess the efficacy of the Trust Frameworks for Federal purposes, so that an Agency online application or service can trust an electronic identity credential provided to it at a known level of assurance (LOA) comparable to one of the four OMB Levels of Assurance. Trust Frameworks that are comparable to federal standards are adopted through this process, allowing federal Relying Parties (RPs) to trust credential services that have been assessed under the trust framework.