3.5.2 Multilateral Trust Agreements

In a multilateral trust agreement, the federated parties look to a federation authority to assist in establishing the trust agreement between parties. In this model, the federation authority facilitates the inclusion of CSPs, IdPs, and RPs under the trust agreement.

When onboarding a party in any role, the federation authority conducts vetting on that party to verify its compliance with the terms of the trust agreement, as shown in Fig. 2. The level of vetting is unique to the use cases and models employed within the federation, and details are outside of the scope of this document. As with many other functions, the federation authority can outsource the vetting process to another party, but the federation authority is ultimately responsible for the results of the vetting process.

Fig. 2. Federation authority

The trust agreement SHALL enumerate the required practices for vetting all parties and SHALL indicate the party or parties that are responsible for performing the vetting process.

At a minimum, the vetting of CSPs, IdPs, and RPs SHALL establish that:

The federation authority MAY provide a programmatic means for parties under the trust agreement to verify the membership of other parties in the trust agreement. For example, a federation authority could provide a discovery API that provides the vetted capabilities of an IdP for providing identities to RPs within the system. Alternatively, the federation authority could provide a signed attestation for RPs to present to IdPs during a registration step.

Federation authorities SHALL periodically reevaluate members for compliance with terms disclosed in the trust agreement.

A multilateral trust agreement MAY establish trust based on other trust agreements that are managed by other entities by creating an interfederation agreement. For example, IdP1 has been vetted under a multilateral agreement with federation authority A1, and RP2 has been vetted under a multilateral agreement with federation authority A2. In order to facilitate connection between IdP1 and RP2, a new federation authority A3 can provide a multilateral agreement that accepts IdPs from A1 and RPs from A2. If IdP1 and RP2 accept the authority of A3, the federation connection can continue under the auspices of this interfederation agreement.

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