- Open administration
- Digital certification
- Digital identity
- Identity and digital signature
The European Union agrees on the creation of a "European digital identity portfolio"
In recent months, the software of the idCAT Registration Entities has been undergoing a transformation. Some changes are due to current and future regulations and others to the emergence of new services such as idCAT Mobile.
Related to the idCAT Mobile, and in reference to the adequacy to the current requirements of the Law 39/2015, of 1 October, on the Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administrations, the AOC Consortium is working to try to offer you, during 2017, an integrated application that will allow you to carry out the idCAT Certificate and the idCAT Mobile in one step. In this way, we aim to avoid duplication in the tasks of the operators and users of this service.
This development includes:
1.- Integration with the General Direction of the Police through ViaOberta to allow the consultation of the DNI, avoiding the need to realize a photocopy and compulsa of the DNI.
2.- Integration with the new digitization service that the AOC Consortium will offer from this year onwards, which will allow the documents generated on paper to be scanned securely, in this case both the photocopies of the DNI and the delivery notes signed by the applicants. .
3.- Integration with a biometric signature system to allow the signature of the delivery sheets in electronic format.
These changes will take place in stages during 2017.
Provisionally, and while they are not available, from the AOC Consortium we will make recommendations for all ER idCAT ERs so that they can use the Consortium's new digitization service to securely digitize both photocopies of ID cards and delivery notes.
Regarding the use of biometric signature mechanisms that some of you have suggested to us, the AOC Consortium has studied different solutions provided by the market and we have detected that it is not a standardized service. Each solution is different and the level of guarantees they offer may also be different, especially in terms of the link between document and signatory. This fact worries the AOC Consortium, as today there is not even a homologation process that allows to know which mechanisms can be used by public administrations and which cannot. That is why we want to integrate a biometric signature service into the registration entities' own system, as this will ensure that the level of guarantees offered is acceptable in terms of our face-to-face registration processes.
It is for this reason that from the AOC Consortium we ask for your patience in the coming months, while we complete the Secure Digitization Service and prepare the appropriate recommendations, and that until then you continue to work as you have been doing so far. In the event that you are working on your own biometric signature and secure digitization projects related to the operation of the Registration Entities, it will be the responsibility of each entity to provide guarantees on the identification and signature mechanisms used during any audit processes. From the AOC Consortium we do not recommend doing so.