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- Foundation News; 2. Group Updates; 3. Member Updates; 4. Digital Identity Community; .5. Events; 6. Metrics; 7. Get involved! Join DIF
🚀 Foundation News
DIF's Community Manager, Limari Navarrete
- Joining the digital identity community can be overwhelming. DIF's Limari Navarrete has been documenting her personal journey.
- Check out her series on Medium here:
DIF Monthly All-Hands
- DIF's monthly All-Hands call next takes place on Wednesday 7th December 2022 at 5pm CET | 8am PT - See DIF calendar
- This public call is open to anyone interested in getting an overview of all the work happening in and around DIF, as well as home to some lively discussions! Please join to ask us your questions, as well as discuss some end-of-year highlights and IIW takeaways.
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🛠️ Group Updates
☂️ InterOp WG (cross-community)
- Timing update: now meeting every second week
- Nov. 16 skipped due to IIW
- Next meeting November 30, 2022
- Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) v1.0 with Paul Knowles (Human Colossus Foundation)
- Nov. 2 Peter Langenkamp (TNO) presented about a cluster of interoperability centered on TNO EASSI.
- "eassi strives to improve the usability of SSI in real life by providing basic functionality that assists in issuing and verifying credentials to and from multiple wallets."
- https://eassi.ssi-lab.nl/docs/about
- Recording of session here
- Survey insights - Results Deck here
- Find the pockets of interop
- Which companies interop with what other companies; build bridges between the pockets
- Interop testing
- Don't boil the ocean. Start with small targets. Let the question "what are we trying to accomplish with interop?" guide the targets.
- Interested in a public assessment framework.
- Bonnie Yau of IDLab mentioned they're working on a framework, starting from (or modelled after) the Aries Agent Test Harness.
- Approaches to Localization
- BC Gov gave a demo of a localized wallet app with credential localization using OCA. (Link to demo pending)
- What other approaches?
- What does "interoperable" mean to different communities?
- Often gets thrown around in marketing jargon but what are some real metrics for defining whether something is "interoperable?"
- Wallet UX
- There might be some other working groups focused on UX already. There might be some overlap with interop.
- Find the pockets of interop
💡 Identifiers & Discovery
- Nikos Fotiou presented on the did:self method - Meeting recording
- Discussion around the W3c DID Interoperability Test Suite
- Universal Resolver is better than ever! We have been making behind-the-scenes stability and capacity improvements. Read more about this interoperability tool on the DIF Blog here
💡 DID Authentication WG
- This ongoing collaborative work is co-hosted with DIF by the Open Identity Foundation (OIDF) as a work item of the OpenID Connect WG
- Latest:
🛡️ Claims & Credentials
- Next meeting 11 Nov 2022 - (1300 ET)
- TPAC W3C DIDWG+VCWG update
- Pre-IIW Discussion
- Topics of Interest
- https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot11-the-hague/blob/master/draft-documents/verfiable-credentials-holder-binding.md
- https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model/issues/929
📻 DID Comm
- Open Wallet DIDComm v2 library contributions?
- light but steady use
- python / jvm languages / rust / swift wrappers
- SICPA
- Repo location? - determine later. - IIW Sessions
- DIDComm KERI (maybe Stephen)
- W3C compatible HL AnonCreds (Stephen)
- DIDComm v2 Intro & Basics (Steve and Sam)
- TOIP Trust Spanning Protocol
- Maybe: DIDComm vs DWN Messages (Interaction vs Data)
- DIDComm Open User Group: GitHub Link
- Meets on Discord: Invite is here
- Using UnSync format, described here to engage asynchronously in a set time period (typically 4-12 hours) at regular intervals to keep conversation & work moving.
- Discussion of the group writing a DIDComm Guidebook - feedback and contributions welcome! Potentially covering:
- What is DIDComm and why would I use it? (super high level)
- Why developing a protocol on top of DIDComm is a great idea.
- Protocol Design Basics
- Protocol Design Best Practices
🌱 Wallet Security WG
- Meetings are now every two weeks, next meeting Tuesday 30th November
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Upcoming topics
- eIDSAS ARF update (should come out imminently) - what impact this has on wallet vendors
- FIDO activity - updates on work items that come out of this liaison
- DIF & ToIP Trust Registry and Trust Agreements (and DIACC hopefully) groups to combine on specific work items and what this may mean for wallets (and specifically wallet security).
- Open Wallet Foundation Architecture - collating input and activity happening in this group.
- IIW debrief
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Recent Discussions
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Backup and recovery - new methods of combinations of SSS/Threshold Sigs and liveness checks
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Portability (Passkey V2 initiaives)
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multi device registration/recovery (traditional recovery mechanisms)
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Authentication of the verifier - OASIS Secure QR Code Authentication 1.0 (ratified)
📦 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
- Thursday 6 October 2022 - (3pm ET) Work Item status
- bbs signatures
- JSON Web Proof: activity is paused at DIF while we work within IETF on establishing a working group. The next step for that is an interim birds-of-feather meeting scheduled for Wednesday, October 12th.
- revocation_methods_for_verifiable_credentials
- we now have a strawman of Andrew's method https://identity.foundation/revocation/non-revocation-token/
- new meeting time 8am PST every Tuesday
- would like to bolster more attendance, would another meeting time change help more people attend?
- Spartan ZKP signatures
✈️ Hospitality & Travel
- Continued discussion around creation of passenger/customer profile for wholistic travel experiences - join the next call to discuss!
- added an SSI Activity Tracker section to the H&T SIG site. Two trackers listed, additions welcome!
🏦 Finance & Banking
- Meeting 38: Financial Privacy & The U.S. Constitution
- Presentation from Nick Anthony. Nick is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute's Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives. During this meeting, Nick will discuss some of the reasons that financial privacy is so lacking in the United States. Among these reasons, Nick will highlight the Bank Secrecy Act, third-party doctrine, and Right to Financial Privacy Act."
- Meeting 37 - Five Lessons Learned from 3 Years of 'Open Banking'
- In meeting 37 we will host David O'Neill from APImetrics. APImetrics has been monitoring Open Banking APIs since the earliest days of UK Open Banking. Monitoring production endpoints and FAPI consent flows provides a lot of insights about how the Open Banking rollout has evolved. David will provide comprehensive insights into the state of the standard, its adoption, and performance. Topics touched on include:
- UK Open Banking Adoption different from 'World'
- Consequences of Non-Compliance
- Banking data is "yours" in UK and Australia
- "Synthetic Calls" - expand
- Technology Debt (COBOL)
- Sandbox Offer
- In meeting 37 we will host David O'Neill from APImetrics. APImetrics has been monitoring Open Banking APIs since the earliest days of UK Open Banking. Monitoring production endpoints and FAPI consent flows provides a lot of insights about how the Open Banking rollout has evolved. David will provide comprehensive insights into the state of the standard, its adoption, and performance. Topics touched on include:
- Meeting 36 - Working Meeting "AML Survey"
- Meeting 35 - Decentralized Identifier and the State
- Meeting 34 - Public Voter Registries
- Meeting 33 - Beneficial Ownership
- Meeting 30 - Intro New Co-Chair: Lennart Lopin
🌏 APAC/ASEAN Open Call
- Our APAC/ASEAN Community Call is a collaborative initiative between DIF and the Trust over IP Foundation (ToIP).
- We invite you to attend the next meeting Thurs Nov. 24th at 9am CET / 3pm SGT. See DIF Calendar here for meeting details
- Last meeting October 27th:
- ToIP Task Force updates
- Governance Architecture task force
- SSI Harms Paper
- Technical Architecture work
- AI Task Force
- ToIP Task Force updates
- Biometric Update analyses S.Korea's government plan for a top-down, although decentralized, blockchain-backed digital ID scheme using mobile devices
🌍 Africa Open Call
- Join us on the next call: 1st December 2022
- Nigerian Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) wins Dubai World Trade Centre Award
💼 Product Managers
- Thursday Nov 10th at 11am ET (8am PST, 5pm CET) Juan Caballero, Standards Coordinator at Centre Consortium, joined to discuss Web3 and Verite solutions
🦄 Member Updates
Trinsic
- Trinsic Ecosystems, the next generation of our platform for building identity products, is live and will be the default product for new users.
- Key features include W3C compliant verifiable credentials, built in governance based on the ToIP spec, and more performant credential exchange.
- Check it out here
DanubeTech
- Announced at IIW35, DanubeTech has launched a dashboard for statistics on the volume of Decentralized Identifier (DID) transactions on various distributed ledgers. Take a deep dive and see the growth and experimentation across various main nets, testnets and more!
Affinidi
- Digital Pilipinas and Affinidi sign MOU to accelerate workforce digitalisation in The Philippines
- Affinidi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Digital Pilipinas regarding the issuance of verifiable credentials (“VCs”), an open standard for tamper-evident digital credentials, to help facilitate the digital upskilling of the local workforce in The Philippines. This partnership aims to empower individuals by recognising their achievements in upgrading their skills and knowledge, through the issuance, verification and authentication of cryptographically-verifiable VCs that attest to such achievements.
- Affinidi has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) with Digital Pilipinas regarding the issuance of verifiable credentials (“VCs”), an open standard for tamper-evident digital credentials, to help facilitate the digital upskilling of the local workforce in The Philippines. This partnership aims to empower individuals by recognising their achievements in upgrading their skills and knowledge, through the issuance, verification and authentication of cryptographically-verifiable VCs that attest to such achievements.
🌎 Digital Identity Community
Linux Foundation
- Get up to speed on Self-Sovereign Identity with this brand new, entirely free course provided by the Linux Foundation: Getting Started with Self-Sovereign Identity (LFS178x)!
- A 6-7 hour course which aims to prepare you to have informed business discussions around digital identity, and particularly self-sovereign identity, with a good understanding about how identity systems work and influence our lives. It will also enable you to identify innovative ideas and solutions for leveraging SSI, and better position you for further technical learning around digital identity.
Trust over IP
- The ToIP Foundation is pleased to announce the release of the first public review draft of the ToIP Technology Architecture Specification V1.0. This initial draft is open for feedback now!
- More info on the feedback and review process is here
ESSIF-Lab
EBSI
- September 2022 - Self-Sovereign technologies are a part of Europe’s Digital Transformation - European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) supporting SSI through three key principles:
- Ecosystem growth
- Privacy by design
- Market-development & collaboration
- EBSI celebrates some of their success stories with Verifiable Credentials in education
- EBSI publishes and updates a list of their conformant digital wallets, including offerings from DIF members DanubeTech, ValidatedID & Gataca
- EBSI also have made a conformance testing framework publicly available
Government of British Columbia, Energy & Mines Digital Trust
Hyperledger Foundation
BlueSky Social
European Union
- After extensive debates on the ePrivacy Regulation, EU lawmakers and diplomats have moved on to discussing the sensitive issue of processing electronic communications data, metadata, and content.
- Read the full press release from European Data Protection Supervisor here
🎈 Events & Promotions
Internet Identity Workshop
- IIW35 - November 15 - 17, 2022 in-person at the Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California.
DIF is in attendance! Be sure to join us on our next virtual all-hands call 7th December for some highlights and takeaways! - IIW34 April 2022 book of proceedings is online and publicly available here
- IIW36 and IIW37 dates have been announced: APRIL 18, 2023 – APRIL 20, 2023, OCTOBER 10, 2023 – OCTOBER 12, 2023, California
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- 5-6 December, 2022 | Japan + Virtual
- Call for papers! CFP Closes: Sunday, September 18 at 11:59pm PDT
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Open Source in Finance Forum - Linux Foundation
- 8 December , 2022 | New York, USA*
- Call for papers closes 12th September, 2022
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IAPP - International Association of Privacy Professionals
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