Policy Management Authority

POLICY MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY OVERVIEW

The CertiPath high-assurance trust environment is governed by the CertiPath Policy Management Authority (PMA), a member-driven committee chaired by CertiPath.

The PMA is responsible for maintaining the documentation that the federated trust is based on, ensuring members’ continuing adherence to the federated trust CertiPath Bridge membership criteria and facilitating interoperability across the federated trust environment.

Each CertiPath Bridge member organization has voting membership in the CertiPath PMA. All prospective members must undergo review by the PMA and a vote before being admitted to membership in the trust framework. In this manner, the CertiPath trust community maintains its high level of integrity and the current membership is directly involved in the decision-making.

CERTIPATH POLICY DOCUMENTS

Certificate Policy - PDF

Current CertiPath, Inc. Audit Report - PDF

Criteria and Methodologies - PDF

Key Recovery Policy (KRP) - PDF

CertiPath Object Identifiers Arc - PDF

Judith Spencer
Chair

Judith Spencer was a federal government employee for more than 36 years. She began her career in cryptographic equipment repair before moving to public key technology and identity management. She spent much of her government career as an Information Technology Manager for Identity Management with GSA. Prior to her retirement from the government, she was instrumental in aligning various agencies and organizations around unified logical and physical credentialing of federal employees as directed in HSPD-12.

At CertiPath, Judith helps track trends and policies in the identity provisioning and management market. She helps guide both the company and the industry in the adoption of more robust and usable standards. Judith also serves as the Chair of the CertiPath Policy Management Authority, where she manages and maintains CertiPath’s Certificate Policy, prepares operational guidance for CertiPath’s community, and partners with the U.S. Federal PKI Policy Authority to ensure alignment on identity management matters.

Judith has a master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.