The purpose of the project is to ensure development of platform independent components for issuance and use of OCES certificates for citizens and employees according to the OCES certificate policies from the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency. The certificate policies are available at www.signatursekretariatet.dk (danish).
As a minimum the project must ensure that components described in the contract dated Feb. 6 2003 between the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and TDC are available, maintained and further developed.
The project must ensure that the solutions are established and developed in an open environment and licensed under open source compliant licenses.
Solutions must in widest possible extends apply to both national and international de jure and de facto standards.
OCES is the danish abbreviation for Public Certificates for Electronic Services. OCES comprises Public defined certificate policies from the Danish National IT and Telecom Agency, CA approved by the agency and the underlying PKI.
In February 2003 TDC and the Danish Ministry signed a contract where TDC is assigned to roll out an OCES public key infrastructure. The contract states that TDC is responsible for the establishment of this Open Source environment to ensure platform independent usages of the certificate.
TDC encourage everyone to participate in the project to make the products as good as possible.
The project is organised in as follows.
Coordination Team
This is the "political" part of the project. The members are appointed by