Open standards and interfaces as well as open source technologies play a central role in the current identity management landscape as well as in emerging future scenarios in the area of electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions according to the eIDAS regulation (2014/910/EU), innovative payment services according to the second payment services directive (PSD2) (2015/2366/EU), trustworthy and privacy enhancing solutions according to the general data protection regulation (2016/679/EU) and other innovative applications in the area of e-health, e-government, cloud computing and the internet of things for example.
