What roles are expected to be performed by Supplementary Certificates?
Supplementary Certificates include Device, Corporate and Hosted Certificates each of which has been designed to satisfy a known business requirement. Hosted Certificates, at this stage may only be used within a defined Community of Interest. Reliance on Supplementary Certificates by agencies will be based on internal risk profiles and will usually be Transaction dependent. Supplementary Certificates provide a variety of alternative certificate structures. For example, a Corporate Certificate will only identify an Organisation (not an individual Key Holder) and may also contain or specify roles or positions within that Organisation able to use that certificate on behalf of the Organisation.