Certification: independent assurance that the rules are being followed
How can we be confident that the trust framework rules are being followed? That’s the role of “conformity assessment”.
John Peart
John works in the Office for Digital Identities and Attributes, leading the Market Oversight and Integrity team.
His team is responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure that makes it possible to use trusted digital identities in the UK, including the UK digital identity and attributes certification scheme and the GOV.UK register of digital identity and attributes services.
What we mean when we say “digital identity and attributes”
A “digital identity” is just a way to prove who you are, things about you and things you might be eligible for. Individual pieces of information about you, that together make up your identity, are what we call “attributes”.
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