Entity Statement

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.

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.
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
a
b
c