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- Trust Federations provide secure electronic communication a network of independent parties. High-level use cases are described in the TF Constellations document.
- The business purpose is to provide service consumers access to service providers (or sometime peer-to-peer access) using trusted third parties.
- Trust Federations are based on Trust Frameworks that provide legal and technical interoperability.
- Trust Federations define security objectives that need to be fulfilled to make electronic communication trustworthy, mostly centered around identity assurance.
- For this Purpose the parties are legally bound by the Trust Framework.
See also the more detail topic map
As defined in the TF Constellations document the purpose of a Trust Framework is seen rather wide, covering technical and legal concerns and various types of business transactions, including on-line services, document transfer, network services and electronic verification of physical access.
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