Party identification
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In order for parties to identify other parties, any party fulfilling a role in an iSHARE based Data Space MUST provide a unique identifier. The following rules apply:
Each Data Space MUST select one or more appropriate legal entity identifier(s) used for identification of participants in the data space. It MAY define its own identifier for use within the data space, keeping following in mind:
The identification (number/string) MUST be unique for each participant of the Data Space
There will be no predefined list of approved identifiers published by the Scheme Owner
The use of a is advised, but other methods including self-defined methods are also allowed.
Each participant of a Data Space MUST be provided with an iSHARE-ID, which is derived with following considerations:
The iSHARE-ID will be provided in the form of an
The iSHARE-ID uniquely identifies an iSHARE participant across data spaces
The iSHARE-ID must be provided to the participants by the first iSHARE Satellite where a party onboards
The iSHARE-ID will be equal to the organization identifier in an attribute of PKI certificate of the participant. alternatively, for the parties onboarded via the certified identity providers without PKI certificates, the organization identifier MUST be equal to organization identifier provided by identity provider.
The party identifier will be stored in the form of an array and contain any number of identifiers. An example value is:
The iSHARE DID method is specified on .