Unaffiliated and Affiliated Individuals

IGC certificates can be issued to the following:

• Unaffiliated individuals: Persons who will use an IGC certificate to transact business on his or her own behalf. These certificates only assert the identity of an individual and have no affiliation with an organization.
   
• Affiliated individuals: Persons who will use an IGC certificate to transact business as an authorized representative of the business with which he or she is affiliated. These certificates assert the identity of an individual and confirm that the individual is associated in some manner with an organization as an employee or contractor.
   

Some use cases, such as Electronic Prescriptions for Controlled Substances (EPCS,) typically require only the identity of the individual to be asserted. Other uses cases, such as when an individual is acting on behalf of their employer, may require the individual’s identity and association with an organization to be asserted as an attribute within the certificate.