1. Introduction

Purpose of the Guide

This guide is designed to facilitate the onboarding process for new Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) in the  Marketplace, ensuring a clear understanding of the necessary steps to complete registration and start publishing offers.

Scope of the Marketplace

The  Marketplace is a digital platform that enables CSPs to offer cloud and edge computing services to enterprise customers across Europe.

The main goal of the onboarding process is the creation of an operating account for the CSPs from which they can operate within the Marketplace and start publishing their offerings.

The process is structured in three main steps:

1. Launching of the process and provision of company information and documentation

2. Verification of the company documentation and contract signature

3. Generation of the verifiable credential for the Legal Entity Appointed Representative (LEAR)

Upon the generation of the LEAR verifiable credential, the CSP is fully operational. The LEAR is the person that the CSP appoints formally, vested with all the necessary powers of representation, to interact within the DOME Marketplace with other companies.

You can find more information about the LEAR here.

Remark about the legal checks

Ensuring a high level of trust in the operation of the Marketplace is a priority for the Marketplace. To achieve that, we have opted for using verifiable credentials as the means of authenticating the operators of the CSP accounts. The generation of verifiable credentials requires the verification of the claims concerning the company and the claims of its representatives (e.g., whether the company exists, the capacity of representing the company of an individual, etc.). That is why the onboarding process requires the verification of a set of legal documentation to be submitted by the CSPs.

If a Qualified Digital Certificate of the legal entity in the sense of the eIDAS Regulation is used, most of these verifications have been made by the qualified trust services providers authorised to generate those certificates, and the DOME Marketplace relies on those verifications. That is why the set of documents to be sent is much lighter for the companies having the eIDAS Qualified Digital Certificate.

We strongly encourage the CSPs willing to onboard on the Marketplace to use eIDAS Digital Certificates in the onboarding process. This will ease the process and the subsequent operation of the lifecycle of the LEAR authorization including the revocation of a LEAR appointment.