Glossary of Terms
This section is informative.
- Home Agency
- The agency responsible for the issuance and management of a PIV identity account.
- Home IdP
- The officially sanctioned IdP of the home agency for a PIV identity account.
- Identity Provider (IdP)
- The party that verifies the credentials of a subscriber account and issues assertions to an RP based on that account for federation.
- PIV Credential
- A PIV Card or derived PIV credential.
- PIV Federation
- A federation process that presents a PIV identity account from a PIV IdP. The subscriber is authenticated at the IdP using PIV credentials.
- PIV IdP
- An IdP that accepts PIV credentials as authenticators for PIV identity accounts as part of PIV federation. The IdP trusted by the RP to create assertions for a PIV identity account.
- Relying Party (RP)
- The party that accepts an assertion from an IdP to allow the federated login of a PIV identity account.