Recommendations

The next step

The automotive community is now ideally placed to reap the financial benefits of a secure global network that can be used to exchange business documents between trading partners.

Continue adoption of Security

The automotive community must continue the adoption of the OFTP2 protocol as the protocol of choice. The combination of the internet and OFTP2 provides the automotive industry with a secure, low cost, global network that can be used for the exchange of documents with all trading partners.

Recommend an OFTP2 CA

A CA must be chosen to lead the deployment of certificates that meets the requirements of the automotive industry, but the existing CA’s within the market place do not satisfy these requirements for the reasons already given.

A CA must therefore be recommended to the automotive industry by the automotive standards organisations (e.g. Odette International, AIAG, etc.). It is vital that the OEM’s together adopt a stance towards acceptable certificates in order to allow the global adoption of OFTP2.