"The primary goals of Federated Identity Services are as follows:

• Reduce the cost of identity management by reducing duplication of effort; each individual�s identity is almost always already managed by a trusted organization (such as the individual�s bank, employer, or physician).
• Leverage the work these existing identity managers have already done by giving other parties access (as required and with appropriate privacy protection) to the relevant identity information.
• Preserve the autonomy of all parties � an identity manager�s choice of authentication technology should not impose that technology on parties who rely on its identity information. An identity manager�s choice of operating system, or networking protocol, or database, should not impose the same choice on its partners.
• Respect business� pre-existing trust structures and contracts. Signing up to receive identity information from an identity provider must not require an organization to establish a trust relationship with any party other than the identity provider, and must not require adoption of any specific user authentication technology.
• Protect individuals� privacy by respecting and strongly enforcing user preferences governing the use of individually identifiable information, observing governmental and regional privacy rules, seeking the user�s consent for new uses, and implementing strong recordkeeping and accountability mechanisms to ensure that privacy practices are followed.
• Build on open standards to enable secure reliable transactions for businesses and individuals."

Ovenstående er de helt overordnede mål med det tekniske arbejde. Disse mål kan konkretiseres til følgende tekniske målsætninger:

1. Det er målet at skabe grundlag for en *føderation af nationale web services",
2. ... hvor der opretholdes "Single-Sign-On" (SSO) og
3. ... hvor det er muligt for serviceudbydere at overbevise sig om brugeres identitet og autenticitet
4. ... samt for alle parter i føderationen at kunne opretholde uafviselighed af beskeder, svar og andre vigtige data
5. ... ved brug af åbne internationale og nationale standarder (konkret OCES, SAML og OIO)
6. ... på en effektiv måde
7. ... og uden at introducere unødige "single points of failure"
8. ... så løsningen kan skalere til at kunne håndtere en stor del af (helst al) system-til-system integration mellem systemer i sundhedssektoren
9. ... uden at tvinge parterne til specifikke platforms-, leverandør- eller værktøjsvalg.