Authentication of organisation identity

The DutchGrid medium-security Certification Authority authenticates organisations by checking:

• that the organisation is known to its peers to be part of the distributed and grid computing effort in the Netherlands, or that the organisation is located at the Wetenschappelijk Centrum Watergraafsmeer by checking with the NIKHEF Director or the NIKHEF Institute Manager,
• that the organisation is operating in the Netherlands, by checking organisation contact information,
• that the organisation in involved in research or education, by personal contact with either its peers or its (former) students.

The name of the organisation will be validated at the description of the CA administrator mentioned in section 1.4, by checking its public presence.