Where Does the EAP Fit Into Electronic Authentication Interoperability?
The EAP goal is to provide organizations a straightforward means of relying on digital credentials issued by a variety of e-authentication systems. The EAP is not going to duplicate the work of other organizations in the e-authentication world nor does it seek to replace individual industry-wide authentication protocols. Instead, the EAP will build on the groundbreaking work of others by: • Creating a voluntary partnership for governance of digital authentication among stakeholders from all levels of government, the private sector and public interest groups. • Eliminating the need for individual parties to have bilateral agreements with each other party upon whose authentication processes they wish to rely. Instead, any party operating under EAP rules agrees to follow those rules, resulting in multilateral trust among all participants. • Establishing and maintaining common policies and practices for credentials, credential providers and credential processors that will facilitate trust,
