IdAuthority Overview
The Need For Website Identification On The Internet
The Internet provides a zero level of trust. Yet, in order for us to use the Internet to its full commercial and communicative potential, we require trust.
IdAuthority overcomes these fears by connecting the inherent commercial and legal comforts of the physical world with the online world. As a result of this revolutionary step, the IdAuthority ensures that:
- Consumers are assured of who they are dealing with
- Businesses can provide consumers with visibility of who they really are
- Businesses are able to identify legitimate trading partners
- A comparable level of assurance is available in the virtual world that already exists in the physical world
- Borne out of critical need for online identity assurance
- World's first real-time identity assurance infrastructure
- Immediate benefits to both consumer and business
- Free service
- Covers immediate essentials
- Useable from day one
- Premium services cost money
- Connecting the physical world to the online world
- Legal frameworks
- Trademarks
- Entity naming structure
- Business contact infrastructures
- Consumer comforts
- Standardised communications
- Trusted Name Service
- Geographic Navigation
- Secondary identifier navigations
- Central location of web site identifications
- Essential for success of Internet
- Digital Certificate based
- Does not require participants to use PKI - simple interfaces
- Open standards based, federated system
- Insurance for Identity Assurance
- Creating confidence in using the Internet as a commercial tool