Difference between revisions of "Trust Service"

Revision as of 12:00, 15 November 2018

Full Title or Meme

Any Web Site that reports on the depth of support that other sites or documents have for the principles of the Framework Profiles that they claim to support.

Context

• Any Web Site that wishes to acquire User Information should first present Assurance as to their trustworthiness to the User.

Problem

• There are few functional trust services today, for example:

1. DOI
2. DNSSEC

Solution

Compare with other solutions like:

• Attempts to make a trusted connection from a user to Web Site have included EV Certs and other attempt to over come the failings inherent in trusting any connection based on the URL have all failed. See the page Bearer Tokens Considered Harmful for details.

1. Create a Trusted Identifier as a URN for web sites and then bind the token to that URN.

German Proposal for Identity and Trust Services

• Draft Instrument on Cross-Border Legal Recognition of Identity Management and Trust Services — Proposal by Germany (2018-11)
• Extract from Pramble:

Assuming that uniform rules shall be based on respect for the freedom of parties to choose appropriate media, technologies, identification and trust services, taking into account the principles of technological neutrality and functional equivalence, to the extent in which the means selected by the parties are relevant to the purpose of the existing law; Recognizing the opportunity and feasibility of both centralized and decentralized systems of trust, and their utilization to accelerate progress and digital economy, including the trusted implementation of e-commerce and transport, electronic dispute settlement, creation of e-government and electronic public services, development of online training courses, e-healthcare, various electronic registries, electronic financial services

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