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Ready-to-use descriptions
In one sentence
OTSPI is a public-interest initiative, currently being formed as a non-profit association, that is building an open, auditable qualified trust service provider with no per-transaction fees for eIDAS 2.0.
In three lines
The Open Trusted Service Provider Initiative (OTSPI) is a public-interest initiative, currently being formed as a non-profit association under the French law of 1901. It is building an open, auditable and inalienable trust service provider: qualified electronic time-stamping first, then certificates, seals, signatures and identity, through standard APIs and with no per-transaction fees. A pilot service runs in a test environment; no qualification has been applied for to date.
In ten lines
The eIDAS 2.0 Regulation extends the role of qualified trust services: the European Digital Identity Wallet, mandatory e-invoicing, ever shorter Web certificates. Yet qualified proof is still billed per transaction, with a prior contract and proprietary interfaces, which in effect shuts out SMEs, local authorities, universities and open source projects.
The Open Trusted Service Provider Initiative (OTSPI) wants to answer with a public-interest qualified provider whose baseline service would be free and identical for everyone. Its software stack is published under the European Union Public Licence (EUPL 1.2). Its draft statutes, which will only take effect once adopted by the founding general meeting, forbid any appropriation of the infrastructure.
The first service targeted is qualified electronic time-stamping, for which a pilot runs in a public test environment. TLS certificates, seals, signatures and identity would follow. OTSPI is currently driven by a small, volunteer founding team; its white paper is open for public consultation.
What OTSPI is not
- A qualified provider: no qualification has been applied for, and tokens from the test bench have no legal value.
- An association already formed: the statutes have not been voted, and no membership is open.
- A funded project: no funding is announced to date.
Sourced key figures
Each figure links to its source. Figures change: quote the date of the survey.
- 280 qualified providers in the EEA, of which 158 offer qualified time-stamping (automated survey of the national trusted lists, 24 September 2026, methodology).
- ≈ €10,000 excl. VAT a year to time-stamp 15,000 documents a month at a qualified provider's public prices (white paper, § 2.1).
- 10 million economic actors affected by mandatory e-invoicing in France, the broadest scope used by the Ministry of the Economy (economie.gouv.fr, in French).
- 47 days maximum validity of a TLS certificate in 2029, down from 398 in 2025 (CA/Browser Forum, ballot SC-081v3).
- 24 December 2026: deadline for each Member State to provide the European Digital Identity Wallet (Regulation (EU) 2024/1183).
Rules for using the name and logo
The name “OTSPI” and its logo are the distinctive signs of the initiative. They may be reproduced to refer fairly to the project, excluding any use likely to suggest that a third-party service is operated or qualified by OTSPI, or that the initiative endorses a product, a company or a bid. If in doubt, write to us.
The editorial content of the site is published under CC-BY-4.0: you may reuse it, crediting OTSPI and linking to the source.
Documents to download
- White paper (PDF, version 0.9, public consultation) · French version (reference)
- One-page overview (PDF) · French
- Manifesto for a free and open digital identity
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