There are several policy approaches to authentication, in principle, which tend to vary from one jurisdiction to another according to political philosophy.

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The OASIS IDtrust Member Section was formed in 2006, partly on top of the erstwhile PKI Forum and OASIS PKI Member Section, in response to an intensifying yet broadening interest amongst businesses and vendors in the tpics of "identity" and "trust". In this we are probably paralleling the "Identity 2.0" movement.

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Historically the leading "IDtrust" technlogies and frameworks have been mainly based on Public Key Technologies (PKTs) and have been expressed as PKI.  There are however other fundamental mechanisms for delivering authentication.