Guidance: How to create, bind and share attributes (1.0)

Guidance on creating, binding, scoring and sharing attributes for organisations certified against the UK digital verification services trust framework as an attribute service provider, or interested in understanding more about attributes.

This guidance (‘the attributes guidance’) is written for ASPs certified against the DVS trust framework and describes a methodology for creating, binding, scoring and sharing attributes.

This 1.0 publication of attributes guidance is valid from the date the 1.0 publication of the UK digital verification services trust framework (‘trust framework’) comes into force.

Services demonstrating compliance with the attributes guidance as part of certification against the 1.0 trust framework will have to comply with this version of the guidance.

This is the first version-controlled publication of the attributes guidance. The most recent non-numbered version of the attributes guidance was comprised of three different publications (titled ‘Understanding attributes’, ‘How to create and share attributes’ and ‘How to score attributes’) which can be found on GOV.UK. Those three publications are collectively, from the date of this publication, to be considered as the 0.4 version of the attributes guidance.

The publication has been updated to reflect that it is now in its final release, rather than in pre-release.