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1.6 Document Structure

NIST PIV and digital identity SP 800-217 (Draft)
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This document is organized as follows. Each section is labeled as either normative (i.e., mandatory for compliance) or informative (i.e., not mandatory).

• Section 2 describes a general architecture for PIV federation. This section is informative .

• Section 3 describes the trust agreements in a PIV federation. This section is normative .

• Section 4 describes the Federation Assurance Levels as applied to PIV federation. This section is normative .

• Section 5 describes the requirements for IdPs and RPs in a PIV federation. This section is normative .

• Section 6 describes the requirements for protocol elements in a PIV federation, including assertion contents. This section is normative .
• References contains a list of publications referred to from this document. This 399 400

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• Appendix A contains a glossary of selected terms used in this document. This appendix is informative .

• Appendix B contains a selected list of abbreviations used in this document. This appendix is informative .