# Level of Assurance Contracts
A Level of Assurance contract is a set of mappings between the Levels of Assurance (LoA) as defined in the vendors documentation or protocol specs and some relative values (Level 1, Level 2, Level 2+, Level 3, Level 4).
# Example
TIP
For SAML:
urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:ac:classes:PasswordProtectedTransport is mapped to Level 2.
For eHerkenning:
urn:etoegang:core:assurance-class:loa2plus is mapped to Level 2+.