14. An article of manufacture comprising: a machine-accessible medium including data that, when accessed by a machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising the method of claim 1 .
23. The article of manufacture of claim 14 wherein the data causing the machine to perform the operation of processing the identity criteria included in the packages comprises data that, when accessed by the machine, causes the machine to perform operations comprising: gathering roles associated with an identity criterion included in a package, the identity criterion identifying a term; determining whether an identity set associated with the gathered roles already exists; if a type identity set associated with the gathered roles does not already exist: creating a type identity set; associating the gathered roles with the type identity set; locating the type defined by the identified term; creating an association relating the type identity set to the located type; and setting the identity criterion as a representer of the type identity set; else setting the identity criterion as a representer of the type identity set.