Overview

Partners are external entities or organisations who offer products or services to ensure the effective implementation and operation of MOSIP-based identity systems. PMS Portal is a web based application that is designed to facilitate the collaboration and integration of external partners in the MOSIP ecosystem. This portal serves as a central platform to onboard all types of MOSIP partners, manage their details and build partner specific functionalities for seamless interaction.

Who are the partners in MOSIP?

Partner Type
What do they do in MOSIP?
Why do they need PMS portal?

Device Provider

Provide devices for Registration and Authentication

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used to build a trust store in MOSIP to cryptographically validate that the biometric data was captured by a device issued by the device provider.

  • Provide make & model details of devices for book keeping.

  • Provide SBI information for book keeping.

FTM Chip Provider

Provide secure chip for Authentication devices

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used to build a trust store in MOSIP to cryptographically validate that the biometric data was captured by a device integrated with a chip issued by the FTM chip provider.

  • Provide chip model details for book keeping.

ABIS Partner

Provide ABIS engine to deduplicate biometrics

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used for encryption the biometric data that is shared during deduplication.

  • The request for a policy based on which data is shared with them for deduplication

Manual Adjudication System

Manual Adjudication system helps a biometric expert to compare two sets of biometric data and few demographic data, so that, the adjudicator can take the final decision that the identified record is actually a duplicate.

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used for encryption the biometric and demographic data that is shared during deduplication.

  • The request for a policy based on which data is shared with them for adjudication

SDK Partner

Provides SDKs that are used for performing matching of two records, checking the quality of the biometrics or generating biometric templates.

  • They don’t need Partner Management Portal

Authentication Partner

They are also called Relying Party or Service Providers who use MOSIP authentication services for delivering services

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used to build a trust store in MOSIP to cryptographically validate that they were the ones who were authenticating the citizens also this certificate is used to encrypt the response shared in e-KYC.

  • They choose a policy which they want to use and request for approval for the policy from the partner admin.

  • Once a policy is approved, they can perform eSignet (OIDC Client) and/or API based authentication.

  • They can create OIDC client for an approved policy which is used in eSignet authentication.

  • They can generate API Keys against the policy in order to use it during citizen authentication.

  • They can also deactivate an OIDC Client or API Key if it is compromised

MISP (MOSIP Infrastructure Service Providers)

They provide infrastructure services to MOSIP and help relying parties (authentication partners) access the authentication endpoints exposed by MOSIP

  • Share partner certificate which helps verify that the ISP is a genuine partner, the certificate uploaded is generally not used in MOSIP.

  • Generate License Keys which would be used for during citizen authentication.

ID Authentication Module / Online Verification Partner

Module that stores ID data used for authenticating the citizens

This is an internal module

  • Generally added from the backend by the administrator

Printing/ Credential Partner

They provide print solution

  • Shares partner certificate which would be used for encryption the face and demographic data that is shared for printing the ID card.

  • The request for a policy based on which data is shared with them for printing

What are the policies used in MOSIP?

  • Data Share Policy

  • Authentication Policy

  • MISP Policy

Partner policies control the data that needs to be shared with a partner. The policies reside in auth_policy table of mosip_pms DB.

Policy types

Policy type

Partners

Description

Auth policy

AP

Datashare policy

Online Verification Partner, Credential Partner, Manual Adjudiation, ABIS partner

Specifies data to be shared with partners

MISP Policy

MISP

Specifies

Policies are not applicable for Device Provider, FTM Provider.

Partner roles

Partner Admin
PARTNER_ADMIN

Policy Manager

POLICYMANAGER

Authentication Partner

AUTH_PARTNER

Credential Partner

CREDENTIAL_PARTNER

Device Provider

DEVICE_PROVIDER

FTM Provider

FTM_PROVIDER

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