2. iDIN Solution Overview

This chapter contains a brief description of iDIN and the underlying iDx protocol. A more elaborate description can be found in the iDIN Merchant Implementation Guidelines (also available in Dutch), which is distributed along with this integration manual.

iDIN Roles

The following roles are used throughout this document:

Definition	Description
Merchant	The owner of a web application in which iDIN is an authentication method, and the user of the Software Libraries
Acquirer	The acquiring bank with which the Merchant has a contract for iDIN

Routing Service The technical role of the Acquirer which handles the message exchange. Throughout this manual the Acquirer and Routing Service can be seen as the same party. Consumer The consumer who uses iDIN provided by the Merchant Issuer The bank that communicates on behalf of the Consumer Validation Service The technical role of the Issuer that handles the message exchange