Decentralized Identity Foundation

🚀DIF Monthly #17 (April, 2021)

🚀DIF Monthly #17 (April, 2021)

📯 Sidetree has reached v1, lots of groups are preparing sessions and demos for IIW (see below for DIF coupon!), Steering Committee elections are just around the corner, a whole hackathon

Newsletter

12 Apr 2021 · 7 min read

Sidetree Protocol reaches V1

Sidetree Protocol reaches V1

The DIF Steering Committee has approved the first major release of the Sidetree Protocol specification, "v1" so to speak. Here is a snapshot of the four companies and four implementations that stretched and built the specification.

Working Groups

12 Apr 2021 · 5 min read

The Steering Committee is growing

The Steering Committee is growing

An operating addendum was adopted last month which contains all the procedures for periodic elections and distribution requirements. This article repackages those policies in the form of a Frequently Asked Questions document.

Foundation

8 Apr 2021 · 4 min read

Drilling down: Co-Development

Drilling down: Co-Development

What it looks like when competitors work together in the open

Juan Caballero, Foundation

29 Mar 2021 · 9 min read

🚀 DIF Monthly #16 (March, 2021)

🚀 DIF Monthly #16 (March, 2021)

Our monthly email newsletter and activity digest

BalazsNemethi, Newsletter

3 Mar 2021 · 6 min read

KERI: For every DID, a microledger

KERI: For every DID, a microledger

The community effort to bridge DID methods with a new data model

Juan Caballero, Working Groups

3 Mar 2021 · 8 min read

DIF Face to Face Jan 2021 Highlights

DIF Face to Face Jan 2021 Highlights

Come for the summaries, stay for the clip reel, bookmark for the links!

Juan Caballero, Foundation

27 Jan 2021 · 6 min read

Trinsic donates did-key.rs to I&D WG

Trinsic donates did-key.rs to I&D WG

This marks the first donation of a Rust “crate” (package) to the I&D WG.

Working Groups

25 Jan 2021 · 3 min read

DIF & OIDF

DIF & OIDF

Collaborating on next-generation standards

Foundation, Working Groups

8 Nov 2020 · 2 min read

Drilling down: Open Standards

Drilling down: Open Standards

In this post, we drill down into what “standards” are, and the characteristics of an “open process” for developing standards. Supporting these open standards is where the bulk of DIF’s efforts and resources are focused.

Foundation

12 Oct 2020 · 8 min read

Drilling down: Open Source

Drilling down: Open Source

A crash-course in the complex world of variously-open software licensing

Foundation

4 Oct 2020 · 10 min read

Understanding DIDComm

Understanding DIDComm

A cross-community effort to standardize on common, DID-anchored capabilities

Foundation

29 Sep 2020 · 5 min read

Where to begin?

Where to begin?

Juan Caballero, Foundation

18 Aug 2020 · 8 min read

DIF’s Updated Code of Conduct

DIF’s Updated Code of Conduct

BalazsNemethi, Foundation

22 Jul 2020 · 3 min read

DIF is opening up: Join for free

DIF is opening up: Join for free

Foundation

2 Jul 2020 · 4 min read

DIF Virtual Face-to-Face, June 2020

DIF Virtual Face-to-Face, June 2020

Juan Caballero

24 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

Decentralized identity community comments for NIST’s RFC (FIPS 186–5 and SP 800–186)

Decentralized identity community comments for NIST’s RFC (FIPS 186–5 and SP 800–186)

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is requesting comments (official request) on the Federal Information Processing…

Foundation

31 Jan 2020 · 1 min read

DIDs are PIDs

DIDs are PIDs

How was it possible that there was an entire community dedicated to PIDs (persistent identifiers) that our community around DIDs (decentralized identifiers) had not heard of before?

Working Groups

16 Feb 2019 · 3 min read

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