Introduction

The SWAMID Policy defines an Identity Assurance Profile this way:

An Assurance Profile describes levels of trust in claims and organizations. An Assurance Profile allows a Relying Party (also known as a Service Provider) to determine the degree of certainty that the identity of a Subject presenting a Claim of identity is truly represented by the presented claim. This degree of certainty is represented by a commonly agreed-upon "Level of Assurance". Identity assurance is to a large extent independent of the technology used to convey Claims of identity.

Levels of Assurance

The SWAMID assurance framework is based on NIST SP 800-63.

TCS eScience Personal Assurance

The TCS eScience Personal Certificate Policy requires conformance with the Euro GRID PMA policy which is not directly related to NIST SP 800-63. For this reason the TCS eScience Personal service are not directly mappable to SWAMID Identity Assurance. Please consult TCS Personal (eScience) for further details.