Trust Framework
A trust framework is the set of technical standards, legal rules and governance agreements that let issuers, holders and verifiers rely on each other’s credentials across organisations and borders, such as the framework eIDAS 2.0 establishes for the EU.
In practice, a trust framework is anchored by Trusted Lists: national registries, published by each EU member state, of the qualified trust service providers and issuers authorised to operate under it. A verifier checks a credential’s issuer against the relevant Trusted List rather than maintaining its own list of who to trust, so the same check works no matter which member state issued the credential.