Registration authority

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A trusted entity that establishes and vouches for the identity of a Subscriber to a CSP. The RA may be an integral part of a CSP, or it may be independent of a CSP, but it has a relationship to the CSP(s).

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Organization85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

Regulated80%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Information Class

Pii75%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: RA
plural: Registration authorities
possessive: Registration authority's
pluralpossessive: Registration authorities'

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