Background
These are some notes from the Zurich meeting for JRA3 on how we could better represent baseline level of assurance for federations and identity, and what it means to go above the baseline - what I am calling a "boosted" identity here for want of a better word. The idea is to create something that is completely separate from the concept of hierarchical levels of assurance, but you can "boost" your IdP offering in different ways that are orthogonal and may be combined in different ways to meet the needs of different scenarios / environments. I've played around with a lot of words for this but struggle to find any other way of describing that does not imply some sort of strict hierarchy.
Approach
Pieces of the Puzzle