Accreditation Authority

Full Title or Meme

An Accreditation Authority operates under an Authority Anchor (or Federation Framework) to register entities that have passed the certification rules of that framework.

Example

An example of a 3rd party accreditation authority for the OpenID Connect Federation 1.0

{
 "iss": "https://swamid.sunet.se",
 "sub": "https://umu.se/op",
 "iat": 1577833200,
 "exp": 1609369200,
 "id":
   "https://refeds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Sirtfi-1.0.pdf"
}