Working Groups

These are stories submitted by the chairs
https://identity.foundation/#wgs 29 posts
        
            sidetree
        
    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
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    5 min read
    
            dif
        
    KERI: For every DID, a microledger
            The community effort to bridge DID methods with a new data model
        
        Working Groups
        
    3 Mar 2021
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    8 min read
    
            dif
        
    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
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    3 min read
    
            dif
        
    DIF & OIDF
            Collaborating on next-generation standards
        
        Foundation, Working Groups
        
    8 Nov 2020
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    2 min read
    
            code donation
        
    Peer DIDs moving to DIF’s ID Working Group
            The vast majority of relationships between people, organizations, and things have simple requirements and privacy requirements incompatible with immutable publication, and now DIF’s thinking about those, too.
        
        Working Groups
        
    7 May 2020
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    3 min read
    
            standards
        
    Overview of Decentralized Identity Standards
            Building blocks for Decentralized Identity
        
        Working Groups
        
    2 Mar 2020
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    8 min read
    
            universal resolver
        
    A Universal Resolver for self-sovereign identifiers
            DIF is introducing a community preview of the Universal Resolver — a core building block of a decentralized identity system
        
        Working Groups
        
    1 Nov 2019
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    4 min read
    
            interoperability
        
    The Self-sovereign Identity Stack
            At the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) XXVII in Mountain View, Oliver Terbu
 and Rouven Heck from ConsenSys invited other experts from the DIF and in the identity space to jointly work on an SSI stack definition.
        
        Foundation, Working Groups
        
    5 Sep 2019
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    6 min read
    
            education
        
    Where to begin with OIDC and SIOP
            How today’s most powerful authentication mechanisms can be decentralized
        
        Working Groups, Foundation
        
    29 Jul 2019
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    6 min read
    
            interoperability
        
    Rhythm and Melody: How Hubs and Agents Rock Together
            Overlapping descriptions of hubs and agents have fostered a perception that they’re competing technologies. This is unfortunate, because the truth is quite different. Hubs and agents are actually synergistic, like a drummer and a guitarist.
        
        Working Groups
        
    23 Jul 2019
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    7 min read
    
            dif working groups
        
    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
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    3 min read