Welcome - Marc Sel
Worldwide Identity, Authentication and Signature
Basics
The diverging vocabularies for example between EU and US sometimes introduce a lack of clarity. Most EU Member States have some form of identity card, and many countries are introducing
electronic identity cards. Other countries opt for identity based on documents such as the driving license. Europe talks about Electronic Signatures (ES), Advanced Electronic Signatures (AES), and Qualified
Electronic Signatures (QES). The objective is to give legal effect to non-traditional signatures, if a number of conditions are met. The sought legal effect is the equivalence with
the traditional ('wet') signature, and most European Civil Codes have been updated to reflect this. The US Federal ESIGN Act of 2000 defines electronic signatures broadly. In the US, the term
'digital signature' is mostly used to refer to PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) signatures.
Global aspects
- Uncitral - UN Commission on International Trade Law, six Working Groups:
- Working Group I - Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
- Working Group II - Dispute Settlement
- Working Group III - Investor-State Dispute Settlement Reform
- Working Group IV - Electronic Commerce- (addresses electronic authentication and trust services)
- Working Group V - Insolvency Law
- Working Group VI - Security Interests
- UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)- one of the five UN regional commissions, trade facilitation recommendations and electronic business standards
- UNECE/CEFACT- Centre for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business, subsidiary of the UNECE Committee on Trade
- UNESCAP - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the UN regional development arm for the Asia-Pacific, includes facilitation of cross-border paperless trade
- ITU
- ITU- FG IdM - Focus Group IdM
- ITU- GSI - Global Standards Initiative
- OECD
- OECD - Recommendation and Guidelines on Electronic Authentication
- LEI ROC - Regulator Oversight Committee on Legal Entity Identification
Europe - Smart Borders for the Schengen zone
Travellers that want to enter the Schengen zone enter according to the Schengen Border Code (SBC).
- DG Home Affairs - established in 2010 - including visas, residence permits for non-EU, document security, borders and smart borders, ...
- Frontex Agency External Borders
- eu-LISA Large-scale Information Systems Agency, operates SIS II, VIS, EuroDAC
US and Canada
- US - DHS - Department of Homeland Security -(OBIM (ex US-VISIT and ESTA), Rescue 21, SecureFlight, SBInet, ...)
- US - DHS - OBIM - Office of Biometric Identity Management - created in March, 2013, replacing the United States Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) and streamlining operations.
- US - login.gov - government login
- US - IDESG - Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) – a voluntary, public-private partnership built around NSTIC
- US - Idmanagement.gov - HSPD-12, PIV, ICAM (Identity, Credentials, Access Management), ...
- US - Idecosystem.org - ID Ecosystem Steering Group - the NSTIC ecosystem - IDESG
- US - Idecosystem.org - document repository
- US - betteridentity.org - Jeremy Grant (coalition)
- US - https.cio.gov https for US government websites
- KantaraInitiative, rooted in US
- Swedish Europoint, the first (2015) Kantara assessor in Europe
- European Trust Foundation, to support Kantara in EU
- SAFE-Biopharma - Pharmaceutical companies
- OIX - Open Identity Exchange (US/UK/...)
- TSCP - Transglobal Secure Collaboration Program - global defense PKI - Richard Trevorah
- US - ESRA - Electronic Signature and Records Association
- US - Silanis - VASCO - provider to US Government
- CA - DIACC - Digital Identity and Authentication Council of Canada
- CA - Canada's British Columbia's Office of the CIO, including Identity Management and all related fields
- US - Verisign
- US - Docusign
- US - Approveme
Middle East
ASIA-Pacific
Russia
- Russia - National Certification Authority
Africa
- TZ - NIDA - National Identification Authority of Tanzania