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Revision as of 10:19, 11 October 2019

Full Title or Meme

A digital document that describes a digital Entity typically signed by a trusted issuer or Authority.

Context

On the Identity Management page different roles are defined for Entities.

Problems

Solutions

Quite a few structures have been defined to describe entities. The Entity Statement created in the OpenID Connect Federation document is taken as be base for comparison with several others in the table below.

Entity Statement HL7 capability X.509 certificate DID Document Notes
n/a persistent URI version 3 Document ID - may include url to this or current version of doc
iss The entity identifier of the issuer of the statement.
sub The entity identifier of the subject
iat The time the statement was issued.
exp Expiration time when the statement MUST NOT be used for new signatures
jwks public part of the subject entity's signing keys
authority_hints entities that may issue an entity statement about the issuer entity
metadata protocol specific metadata claims
metadata_policy type followed by organization information
sub_is_leaf is the subject considered a leaf entity
Legal entity not part of openid statement
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context federation s/w app

HL7 FHIR Capability Statement

The FHIR spec include a definition of a Resource Capability Statement. Which is similar in purpose to the Entity Statement but includes FHIR specific fields. To quote the spec "A Capability Statement documents a set of capabilities (behaviors) of a FHIR Server for a particular version of FHIR that may be used as a statement of actual server functionality or a statement of required or desired server implementation.".

References