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.
Digital verification services sometimes want to use “data brokers” for this purpose and we’ve been asked how they should be treated.
You can avoid your service falling off the GOV.UK register by asking your conformity assessment body to complete your recertification process up to 60 days early. You won't lose the remaining time on your current certificate if you do this, and it will help you to avoid any unnecessary disruption.
Getting onto the GOV.UK register of digital identity and attribute services is not an automatic process. It can take up to 20 working days for your service to appear on the register.
We’ve been asked variously for some kind of document with a gap analysis or assimilation matrix. We don't have one. This is why.
You want to tell people that your service is certified and on the GOV.UK register of digital identity and attribute services. What should you say and what shouldn't you?
The gamma (0.4) publication of the UK digital identity and attributes trust framework introduces certification for "component services". You don't have to use certified components – but you'll probably want to.
This blogpost explains the new approach to certification of white label services against the gamma (0.4) trust framework.
The register of digital identity and attribute services is now in public beta. This means it’s easier for businesses and the public to check and find trusted digital identity products across the UK. Faster and easier The new register …
It’s our responsibility – here in OfDIA – to ensure the register is accurate and up-to-date, and only includes digital identity and attribute services that have been assessed as meeting our rules. In this post, we explain how we intend to do that.
You shouldn’t have to be an expert in trust frameworks and certification to be able to identify a trustworthy digital identity service. And we’re doing two things to mean you don’t have to be.
