Version 1.0 Validation Policy for the Next Generation 9-1-1 Public Key Infrastructure Now Available

The NG9-1-1 Interoperability Oversight Commission (NIOC) is pleased to announce completion of Version 1.0 of the NIOC PSAP Credentialing Agency (PCA) Certificate Validation Guidelines for the NG9-1-1 Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Otherwise known as the Validation Policy (VP), it is a companion to the PCA Certificate Policy (CP) and contains guidelines for verifying the identity and role of NG9-1-1 certificate requestors. Like a background check, it ensures that these stakeholders in the NG9-1-1 ecosystem, from agencies, to users, to the equipment itself, are who they say they are. This ensures a high level of security and establishes trust in the PKI, both within ESInets and between them. The completion and approval of the VP allows the PCA to move closer to production, and NG9-1-1 closer to its end-state of trusted, interoperable networks.  The NIOC adopted an industry baseline Validation Policy as its foundation to ensure interoperability and the NIOC further collaborated with volunteers from the NENA Development Group Core Services Committee, which is also responsible for other NENA technical standards including i3, to refine the baseline policy into a policy that ensures NG9-1-1 security and interoperability standards are fully considered in NG9-1-1 operations.

Click here to read more. The full VP is available here.