The OIX Listing Service will be a publicly-accessible online registry of all of OIX listed trust frameworks, together with the assessors, identity service providers, relying parties, auditors, and dispute resolution service providers listed at each Level of Assurance (LOA) and Level of Protection (LOP) for each trust framework.
The OIX Listing Service will use a simple, standardized architecture to assign globally-unique Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) to each trust framework OIX serves, as well as to each LOA, LOP, and technical profile defined in that trust framework. In addition OIX will assign URIs to each OIX member participating in the trust framework.
Standard queries to the OIX Listing Service will then return concise responses about which identity service providers and relying parties have been certified by which assessors for which trust frameworks at which LOA/LOP and for which technical profiles. The OIX Listing Service may also provide other configuration or certification metadata for participants in the trust frameworks it serves.
The OIX Listing Service is intended to represent a real-time picture of the online trust ecosystem and the open market for identity assurance and protection services. It is an authoritative source (although not necessarily the only authoritative source) of the metadata necessary to verify the certification status of a trust framework participant.
Once an organization is a member of OIX, it can apply for as many listings as it desires in any of the following OIX listing categories:
The OIX Listing Service is currently under development by OIX. For more information please see the OIX white paper.