  The plan for the International Linear Collider is now being prepared as a
staged design, with the first stage at 250 GeV and later stages achieving the
full project specifications with 4 ab-1 at 500 GeV. This talk will present the
capabilities for precision Higgs boson measurements at 250 GeV and their
relation to the full ILC program. It will show that the 250 GeV stage of ILC
will already provide many compelling results in Higgs physics, with new
measurements not available at LHC, model-independent determinations of key
parameters, and tests for and possible discrimination of a variety of scenarios
for new physics.
