Details of 'DTR/ESI-000015' Work Item

	Work Item Reference	ETSI Doc. Number	STF	Technical Body in Charge		Download Standard
	DTR/ESI-000015	TR 102 153		ESI
	Current Status (Click to View Full Schedule)	Latest Version	Cover Date	Standstill		Creation Date
	Publication (2003-02-19)	1.1.1	2003-02-19			2002-12-05
	Rapporteur	Technical Officer		Harmonised Standard
	Franco Ruggieri	Gerry Mc Auley		No
Title	Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI); Pre-study on certificate profiles Prestudy on certificate profiles
Scope and Field of Application	ETSI TC ESI has remarked that existing certificate profiles, among them TS 101 862 [6], are considered too open, allowing too many choices, which lead to incompatible implementations. It has then agreed to launch a pre-study to assess the preconditions for an action to further profile the certificate formats. The purpose of this study is to cover, but not be limited to, qualified certificates. The main finding of this study is that more rigid profiles are deemed necessary to actually achieve interoperability and, therefore, “to ensure the free movement within the internal market and to build trust in electronic signature”. Therefore the next step should be to issue a Technical Standard specify the full format of a Qualified Certificate both from an issuer point of view and from a verifier point of view. Formats for “citizen” certificates (Electronic Identity Certificates) could also be indicated.
Supporting Organizations	Telia, Ficora, SNG, PRC

	Keywords	Projects	Clusters	Frequencies	Mandates	Directives
	authentication e-commerce ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE SECURITY	e-commerce eEurope eEurope2005_Security Electronic Signatures	Security
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