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- Foundation News; 2. Group Updates; 3. Member Updates; 4. Digital Identity Community; .5. Funding; 6. Events; 8. Jobs; 9. Metrics; 10. Get involved! Join DIF
🚀 Foundation News
DIF Steering Committee Election voting is open 3rd-10th June!
- DIF Associate Members can vote in the SC election from Friday 3rd June!
- Voting runs for 1 week, closing 10th June 23:59 GMT.
- Associate members should already have their ballot in their inbox!
- 12 nominees; 6 seats. Further details on candidates & how to vote on our blog here
- email nominations@identity.foundation with any issues or questions.
Welcome Limari Navarette, DIF's new Community Manager!
- We are delighted to welcome Limari to the DIF Org team!
- Keep an eye out for her on DIF calls and around the community, and join us on our weekly comms calls for a chance to chat!
DIF Comms
- We are relaunching the DIF weekly Comms calls.
- These open calls are a space to gather feedback from the community and optimize our comms strategy.
- Held every Wednesday in alternating timeslots, there's definitely one that fits your timezone! Check our DIF calendar here
- Join us this Wednesday, 8th June at 0900 GMT to review takeaways from IIW34 and the European Identity and Cloud conference (EIC)
DIF All-Hands
- Don't forget to join us on our monthly all-hands meeting, where we review updates from the community and connect with our membership
- Next is Wednesday 22nd June at 8am PT / 11am ET / 5pm CET
- Check our DIF calendar here for meeting details
🛠️ Group Updates
☂️ InterOp WG (cross-community)
- Join us June 8th 14:00 PT - Andrew Hughes joins to continue a conversation begun at IIW around the ISO Mobile Driving License (mDL) standard.
- a "wish list" for the next generation of mDL-associated specifications - how they might be more compatible/aligned with the work at DIF and elsewhere.
- Discussions around an SSI Roadmap and routes to adoption
- June 1 - Validated ID presented what it means to be EBSI conformant and how this is aiding interoperability.
💡 Identifiers & Discovery
23 May 2022
- Short discussion about EU Digital Identity Wallet, EBSI/ESSIF, eIDAS 2.0, VCs, ISO mDL, etc.
- Christoph Fabianek of MyData presented on Displaying / rendering the content of a DID document. Recording of session here
- Presentation of Semantic Overlay Architecture (SOyA), work done together with IDunion
- Definition of a data model using a .yml file, then transformation to different representations
- Demo of command line tool, and automatically rendered UI
- Discussion about JSON-LD, RDF, content-addressing
- Use of overlays, SHACL
- Discussion about DID document data model, and how it could be modeled/transformed with Semantic Overlay Architecture (SOyA)
🛡️ Claims & Credentials
- Timing Update: Main WG meeting bi-weekly, Tuesdays at 10am PST / 1pm ET / 7pm CET
- Announcement of new Work Item - DIF C&C WG - Trust Establishment
- Workitem Proposal: Schema Directory
- Find more contributors: get in touch!
- Prior Art:
- Workitem Accepted: Trust Establishment specs and protocols
- New Workitem: JWT-VC Interop Profile Kickoff Meeting
- Cadence: Once a Month, on 3rd Wednesday (see DIF public calendar here)
- Cloned "Profile" template and migrated to DIF.
- Timing update: VC-JWT & Friends Work Item call: Thursdays 2pm EST
- Workitem Proposal: reactivate the Credential Taxonomy item under the name Schema Directory
- Lots of interest to get this restarted
- Request from companies to have a resource to point to "existing" schema or a single resource for schemas
- Have active contributors who want to make additions
- Does DIF need a process for registries or living documents?
📻 DID Comm
- Vote on Status Change of Spec passed by WG (PR 355)
- Welcome to the stage, DIDComm V2 Spec!
- Discussion on adding a 'Max Length' constraint without modifying message header and Instead by using the Discover Features Protocol to enable agents to query for and disclose the maximum message length that they are willing to accept.
- DIDComm User Group is meeting over on DIF Discord!
- (bi-weekly, next meets Wednesday 15th June) - Join here
- working on the DIDComm Guidebook
🌱 Wallet Security WG
- Timing Changes: main biweekly call moves to weekly
- Device Binding work item call is being rolled back into the main WG call
*Discussions:- Usage of hardware binding in W3C/Anoncreds Credentials with examples:
- Standardization draft for communication between wallet and certifying entity
- feedback on the sequence diagram draft
- Hardware-binding ideas for OpenID Connect for Verifiable Credentials Issuance (OIDC4CI)
- Questions on FIDO Authenticator for wallet security coming out of IIW34 session
- Updates on Challenge-response Aries RFC Draft
- Trusted Verifier concepts in lissi wallet (presented by Sebastian Bickerle)
- Hardware-binding ideas for OpenID Connect for Verifiable Credentials Issuance (OIDC4CI)
- New Whitepaper: OpenID for Verifiable
Credentials - device binding integration possibilities w OIDC4CI & OIDC4VP in the future?
- New Whitepaper: OpenID for Verifiable
📦 Secure Data Storage
- Discussion
- User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) model and how it contrasts with decentralized approaches
- Value of JWTs?
- CACAOs (Containers for a chain-agnostic Object Capability (OCAP))
🌱 Applied Crypto WG
- PRs
- #27 - Policy as Code updates - closed as stale
- #8 Provenance logs work item - closed as stale
- Work Items
- bbs signatures
- Very active, preparing for presentation to IETF in July.
- JSON Web Proof
- active, hope to have something soon at IETF
- bbs signatures
✈️ Hospitality & Travel
- Nicholas Giurietto (ConnectID) presented a frictionless hotel customer journey. Recording of the session here.
🏦 Finance & Banking
- Paul Dunphy steps down as co-chair: the group would like to thank him for his contributions and hard work.
- Lennart Lopin (CTO ByteFederal) is joining the group as new co-chair
- Discussion around introduction of ECASH Act in the US, compliance costs and know your customer (KYC) regulations.
🌏 APAC/ASEAN Open Call
- Our APAC/ASEAN Community Call is now a colloaborative initative between DIF and ToIP, launched Thursday 26th May 2022, kicking off with an IIW34 recap. (Meeting Recording)
- We invite to you to attend the next meeting June 23 at 9am CET / 3pm SGT. See DIF Calendar here for details
- All are welcome to join us monthly for presentations, networking and knowledge-sharing.
🌍 Africa Open Call
- Algorand, a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain protocol, has invested an undisclosed amount in Zimbabwe's FlexID to expand its Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) platform, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents
🦄 Member Updates
Condatis
Gataca
- Gataca outline 35 different use-cases for decentralized identities, and how they can make life easier for everyone, from students to employees, to goverment and industry.
IdRamp
- IdRamp CEO Mike Vesey appeared on the State of Identity Podcast to discuss Zero Trust & Decentralized Identity. Give it a listen here
Indicio
- SITA won a decentralized identity award at EIC in Berlin in May, for its implementation of a verifiable credential safe travel solution in the country of Aruba, based on tech built by Indicio.
- The Key to Making Your Decentralized Identity Solution Work? Look to a Strong Mediator Agent: the first of a four-part series describing the strengths of Hyperledger Indy.
- Indicio hosted a meetup on the DID:Indy Method. Watch the Recording on YouTube here as they explain how it works, how you can implement it for yourself, and what it means for scaling decentralized identity networks.
Jolocom
- Jolocom dispel some of the Common Myths about SSI in this blog article, which is also available in German here
Onespan
- Onespan poses the questions of Does the Future of Digital Identity Offer Us Greater Security and Convenient Experiences?
- Onespan's Paul Dunphy published "A Note on the Blockchain Trilemma for Decentralized Identity: Learning from Experiments with Hyperledger Indy"
Validated ID
- Validated ID review the History of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) in an article that is available in English, French, German and Spanish
🌎 Digital Identity Community
- European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI)
- European Commission adopts decision to license EEBSI software as open-source
- EBSI has published a list of conformant wallet solutions
- Building on the W3C's Verifiable Credentials (VC), GDPR and other relevant EU Regulations, EBSI aims to create a non-exclusive, generic profile for the full life-cycle of verifiable credentials and presentations for VC use cases with a Verfiable Credentials Playbook.
- eSSIF-Lab announces four programme participants for their “Completing the Framework” ecosystem
https://essif-lab.eu/meet-the-essif-lab-ecosystem-meet-the-essif-lab-ecosystem-completing-the-framework-programme-participants-amme-participants-2/ - Trust over IP (ToIP) have a piece on how to speak to C-suite partners on the road to adoption for Decentralized Identity - DECENTRALIZED IDENTITY: KEYS TO MAINSTREAM ADOPTION
- Biometric Update document the recent European Identity & Cloud (EIC) conference in Berlin - Decentralized digital identity takes the stage at European KuppingerCole event
- OpenID Foundation announced the first 4 recipients of the newly-established Kim Cameron scholarship to honor his legacy and influence on the SSI community.
- Heather Vescent recaps some of takeways from Internet Identity Workshop's return to in-person at the Computer History Museum - IIW 2022: A return to the Computer History Museum as decentralized ID hype peaks
- Microsoft discuss the need for Decentralized Identity as part of their Introduction to Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials (preview)
- This launch of Microsoft Entra gains new attention for Decentralized Identity, as discussed at GeekWire here. Microsoft is positioning Verified ID as an alternative to the single sign-on (SSO) approach used by traditional federated Identity & Access Management (IAM) providers.
💰 Funding
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European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) grant application deadline extended to August 17th 2022 - more info and how to apply here
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The NGI initiative, launched by the European Commission aims to bridge EU-US research on Next Generation Internet (NGI), has three open calls to allocate funding and consulting support:
- NGI ONTOCHAIN
- apply before the 25th of July 2022, at 17:00 CET
- NGI ASSURE (NGI GO2S)
- apply before 1 August 2022, 12:00 PM CET
- TETRA
- continuous applications
- NGI ONTOCHAIN
🎈 Events & Promotions
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Open Source Summit North America
- June 21-24, Austin, Texas
- In under two weeks, the Linux Foundation brings the open-source community together to collaborate and share.
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- Sept 13-16, Dublin, Ireland
- Join open source developers, technologists, and community leaders to collaborate, share information, solve problems, and gain knowledge, furthering open source innovation and ensuring a sustainable open source ecosystem at the Open Source Summit Europe, organized by the Linux Foundation.
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- Sept 13-16, Dublin, Ireland
- The global Hyperledger community meets in Dublin to align, plan and hack together.
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- Aug 24-28 2022, Northern California
- "a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers, to gather in nature to tackle the real world challenges facing the web and to co-create the decentralized technologies of the future"
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Internet Identity Workshop IIWXXXV
- IIW35 has announced their dates - November 15-17th 2022
- In-person unconference at the Computer History Museum, California
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- Oct 4th-5th 2022, Washington DC
- Early Bird Tickets available until 10th June 2022
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Digital Trust Hui Taumata Summit
- 27th July 2022, Wellington, New Zealand
- Early bird registration ends 21st June
- "public and private stakeholders to come together and share their insights on building a thriving and resilient trust economy"
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- June 21-24, Denver, Colorado
- Covering a wide range of topics important to the identity security community.
💼 Jobs
Members of the Decentralized Identity Foundation are looking for:
- Developer Advocate - Trinsic
- Location: remote
- Backend Engineer - Trinsic
- Location: remote
Check out the available positions here.
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