What the 'Institutional Identifiers' project itself should achieve:

• Establish the characteristics and context needed for the identifier, and the support mechanisms needed to work in a wide variety of situations within the supply chain, and the extent to which existing legacy institutional component identifiers can be used as aliases.
• Create a standard for metadata for the identifier and for any related institutional component with an established legacy identifier and examine the relationship with other managed identifiers such as the ISIL
• Identify the context and placing of the identifier within existing EDI standards and work flows
• Identify the context and placing of the identifier in supply-chain databases of institutions
• Identify the context and placing of the identifier in authentication and authorization systems
• Identify the context and placing of the identifier in standard usage reports for publishers and consumers
• Examine the interaction with other identifiers such as the ISIL
• Explore possibilities for creation of a user interface for customers to interrogate and update institutional information
   
• Explore a governance for an organization to take the use of the identifier forward in a neutral way