Re: [Smcwg-public] [External] Draft proposal to add eIDAS QES as vetting evidence for individual

2024-04-25 Thread Stephen Davidson via Smcwg-public
Hi Judith - The text in question allows a CA to look at a third-party cert associated with a signature and, if it's issued under an approved framework, the CA can accept the individual identity attributes in the cert as verified. When the BR was published it laid out acceptance criteria in

Re: [Smcwg-public] [External] Draft proposal to add eIDAS QES as vetting evidence for individual

2024-04-25 Thread Clint Wilson via Smcwg-public
Hi Judith, As I understand it, the proposed change is purely additive. That is, currently there are no approved frameworks in the SBRs meaning that there is no way for a compliant CA to rely upon a digital signature as evidence for the collection of Individual identity attributes (or any other

Re: [Smcwg-public] [External] Draft proposal to add eIDAS QES as vetting evidence for individual

2024-04-25 Thread Judith Spencer via Smcwg-public
Stephen My primary concern with the proposed change is that once it finds it's way into the BR, anyone not in the EU will be eliminated from trusting existing digital signatures as evidence. For example, here in the U.S., the U.S. Government has an extremely robust digital credential based on a