Purpose

This document is the Online Authentication blueprint for the detailed design and scoping work that the E-government Unit will carry out, in conjunction with agencies and key stakeholders, by early 2004.

The blueprint:

• provides a background to online authentication;
• outlines the policy work that has been completed to date;
• summarises the decisions made by Cabinet about online authentication in June 2003; and
• illustrates the conceptual model for online authentication.