Entity Statement

Full Title or Meme

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

Context

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

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	X.509 certificate	DID Document	Notes
iss			The entity identifier of the issuer of the statement.
Center for Cybersecurity Policy
Distributed ID			One hundred point of identity
FIDO Alliance		UAF U2F	Fast ID Online 1.2 specs dtd 2017
Kantata Initiative	Federations	UMA	also Consent Receipt and IDEF
OAuth	AuthZ		Release under IETF
OpenID Foundation	AuthN+AuthZ	OpenID Connect	OpenID Foundation
SAML 2.0	AuthN	SAML2	OASIS-open.org original single sign on standard
TSCP			Transglobal Secure Collaboration Participation is a collaborative forum of worldwide stakeholders in the defense industry to address security issues
W3C Credential Community Group	Decentralized	eg Public Ledger	DID, verifiable claims sponsored by blockchain providers
Web AuthN	IAP or RP	aka FID02	released under W3C
Univ. of MD		Closed	IDEF registered, supports Internet2 SAML federation