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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 Directors of the WTCW NV,
- 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.
David Groep
2001-10-12