DIF’s Hospitality and Travel Working Group has been taking on a herculean task: creating a protocol for travelers to manage their travel preferences in a privacy-preserving way, through their digital identity apps. It’s an ambitious project, including travel preferences as diverse as food allergies all the way through to rock climbing equipment rental preferences.
This week, the H&T WG announces the open review and prototyping period for their Hospitality & Travel Profile (HATPro) open-source schema. The schema is now available in a GitHub repository for use by developers. Initially, the schema includes extensive modeling of food and beverage preferences and allergies for more than 1000 ingredients and cuisines, as well as outlines for activity and experience categories. The working group has identified a suite of tools to support developers, and is actively working on a toolkit.
Like all working groups in DIF, H&T does all its work through volunteer contributions of DIF members. If you are developing solutions in the area of hospitality and travel, joining DIF is simple. The H&T group is actively seeking feedback on the HATPro schema.
An executive summary, overview, and implementation guide (updated for the current version) is available here.
The HATPro effort has been led by DIF’s Hospitality and Travel Working Group (HTWG), chaired by Douglas Rice and Neil Thomson. The HTWG consists of industry experts from numerous sectors of travel, hospitality, leisure and the identity ecosystem. Technical artifacts and preliminary documentation are now available in the HTWG GitHub repository. The working group encourages industry stakeholders to engage to provide feedback, new ideas, and specific use cases to help guide future priorities; they may be submitted as GitHub issues (for those familiar with GitHub) or using this web form (for others). More general questions and feedback can also be submitted by email at the contact address below.
Contact:
Please email ht-governance@identity.foundation
