Vinnova, a Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, today announced its support for a next generation research initiative lead by Axiomatics focusing on future requirements and solutions for Attribute Governance in Access Control. We currently see a rapidly growing market and a broader adoption of Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) models. It reflects a shift away from a static Role Based Access Control paradigm towards new, loosely coupled and adaptive authorization technologies based on the XACML specification. However, while the concept of roles is well established in the industry and the implications of sound role governance are fairly well understood, the broader concept of Attribute Governance needs to be better defined. This project is scheduled to run over the next 12 months and will assist in the creation of new best practice frameworks and tools to derive privilege giving attributes from business critical processes as well as to secure governance in attribute maintenance.