An infrastructural approach to secure interoperability of electronic IDs: The bridging backbone

Abstract

In this paper we propose a solution to secure interoperability between electronic ID management infrastructures enabling the provision of cross-border eServices to mobile citizens. Our proposal considers an interoperability architecture based on a federation of national infrastructures and follows a cooperation based approach which is fully compatible with and respectful of organizational and technical independence of existing national systems. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.