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Upcoming

• The Future use of SSI and verifiable credentials 11/30

• eSSIF-Lab final event 12/1 Brussels (Kaliya will be there)

• Thoughtful Biometrics Workshop 2/13-17 [Registration]

• APAC Digital Identity unConference, March 1-3 Bangkok, Thailand

• IIW 36 April 18-20, Mountain View

• Digital Identity unConference Europe #DICE. June 7-9, Zurich, Switzerland

Explainer

• Know your customer GlobaliD - KYC is a subset of anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the financing of terrorism (CFT) obligations that many firms must deal with. 

• eIDAS 2.0 and EU Digital Identity Wallet, with Viky Manaila, Intesi Group  Ubisecure - the aim of eIDAS 2.0 is [...] Eighty percent of EU citizens being able to use a digital ID by 2030…

Policy

Texas Work Group on Blockchain Matters Report

In case you missed it last week, Texas has released the most bullish pro-Bitcoin, pro-SSI policy paper authored by any state, ever - Natalie Smolenski

[...]to expand the blockchain industry in Texas in compliance with House Bill 1576, passed by the 87th Texas Legislature.

Interoperable Europe Act proposes strategic interoperability cooperation across EU European Commission  

The interoperability of public services is at the very heart of the European project. It is an enabler for cross-border cooperation, free flow of information, exponential innovation. A strengthened EU interoperability governance, co-owned by Member States and the EU, allows to identify needs, experiment possible solutions, develop and scale the best for public reuse

Standards Work

Paul Knowles presents Overlay Capture Architecture DIF Interop

Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA) offers a data harmonisation solution between data models and data representation formats. Primarily devised for semantic object interoperability and privacy-compliant data sharing, OCA is a proposed global standard for data capture that promises to significantly enhance the ability to define, manage, and use data in terms of simplicity, accuracy, and allocation of resources.

DIDComm Messaging v2.x Editor’s Draft Decentralized Identity Foundation

robust mechanisms for secure communication already exist. However, most rely on key registries, identity providers, certificate authorities, browser or app vendors, or similar centralizations. Many are for unstructured rich chat only — or enable value-add behaviors through proprietary extensions. Many also assume a single transport, making it difficult to use the same solution for human and machine conversations, online and offline, simplex and duplex, across a broad set of modalities.

MSFT presents ENTRA at the Credentials Community Group CCG

Kristina will cover our progress on implementation of standards and some of the next steps around it and Daniel walk us through the architecture of how we implemented it 

Verifiable Credentials

Cisive becomes 1st background screening company to Inspect and Issue Verifiable Career Credentials as a Notary Issuer on Velocity Network

We will need the support of the biggest players across multiple industries as we change the future of background screening and drive a once-in-a-generation revolution to the labor market.

Announcing Hyperledger AnonCreds Project

• The AnonCreds Specification, managed by the Hyperledger AnonCreds Specification Working Group and with the potential of being submitted to an appropriate Standards organization

• Ledger/Verifiable Data Registry-agnostic, open source code implementations of the AnonCreds specification, suitable for use with Hyperledger Aries and non-Aries agents

• Guidance for creating ledger-specific AnonCreds Methods to write and resolve AnonCreds objects for specific ledgers

Kristinayasuda of @Microsoft explains how SD-JWT verifiablecredentials do selectivedisclosure with hashes and salts for each claim DrummondReed

SD-JWT was presented at IIW and a thread emerged asking good questions

The question is whether all those hashes are correlators for the holder.

Tlodderstedt explains where #OIDC4VC protocols fit within the #ToIP four-layer stack Drummond Reed

Once you separate the #agent and the #wallet, the pieces/protocols fit together very nicely — showing the synergy between ToIP and OpenID.

Organization

DIF monthly #30 is out Decentralized Identity Foundation

• 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

[thread] SICPA offering open-source DIDComm v2 libraries to the newly created OpenWallet Foundation SICPA

These DIDComm v2 libraries, fully compatible with future SICPA solutions, allow data to be shared with the highest level of Trust, securely and privately, independently of the transport used ( with thee.g. web, email, QR codes, NFC, etc.).

Announcing the First Public Review of the ToIP Technology Architectures v1.0 Specification TrustOverIP

for the TCP/IP stack, the spanning layer is the IP protocol in the middle. For the ToIP stack, the spanning layer is the ToIP trust spanning protocol

Development

Decentralized Ecosystem Governance Demo Indicio

The Governance Editor is an easy way to create and implement the governance rules for issuing and verifying digital credentials in a Trusted Digital Ecosystem. Indicio has been working with the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to write a specification for decentralized governance that is machine-readable. (video)

Velocity participates in JFF Plugfest 2 Velocity Network

with our partners, Sphereon.com, Validated ID, iQ4, and GreenLight Credentials [...] The Velocity Network is a utility layer and support organization that enables credentials to be fully interoperable across five layers of interoperability:
– Technical
– Structural
– Semantic
– Legal/Regulatory
– Business Process

Interop Plugfest by #JFF and #W3C VC EDU kicking off SimonΞ @psykoreactor Twitter

Company News

Affinidi at the Singapore Fintech Festival 2022 Affinidi

Within the event, close to 3000 digital credentials were issued in respect of business cards, digital collectibles and testimonials. These credentials may then be stored in individual’s mobile devices via the Ceal mobile application, and shared with others with the individual’s consent.

Announcing SSX: Self-Sovereign Anything (GitHub)

With a few lines of code, developers can use SSX to integrate Sign-In with Ethereum, enable DAO logins, build a direct relationship with their users, and access the entire universe of decentralized identity patterns.

Launchpad: Introducing Selective Share GlobalID

After recently releasing our all new GlobaliD Wallet, we’re excited to keep the momentum going and announce that Selective Share is now available in the GlobaliD app.

Use Cases

• Global Solutions Start with Traceability Next Level Supply Chain

• Are Verifiable Credentials Paving the Way for Reinforced Digital Privacy? Gupta Deepak

• How blockchain can make digital ID more secure Raconteur

• Data Compliance: How Verifiable Credentials and DIDs Can Help Organizations Dock

• Solving International Trade Challenges with Emerging Web Technologies Transmute

• [Podcast] Implementing SSI Across web3, Education, & Health Services Liminal

• Solving International Trade Challenges with Emerging Web Technologies Transmute

Web3 / Decentralized Web 

GS1 Healthcare Conference: Paris was more than just croissants Jurij Skornik, OriginTrail

Speaking with some of the largest players in the space, a few recurring themes were present across the majority of our conversations that showcased how Web3 assets can play a key role in addressing them.

The AT Protocol got its own website

Users are identified by domain names in AT Protocol. These domains map to cryptographic URLs which secure the user's account and its data.

User data is exchanged in signed data repositories. These repositories are collections of records which include posts, comments, likes, follows, media blobs, etc.

Wallet Connect meets SSI Walt ID

In the scope of the ETH Lisbon Hackathon the walt.id team extended the WalletConnect V2 Chat protocol in order to exchange W3C Verifiable Credentials in a secure, privacy-respecting and user-friendly way.

Twitter Meltdown, Meta flailing, Mastadon Rising

• Meta is having a midlife crisis, and Zuckerberg’s stale vision is to blame Fast Company

• Human readability is a W3C Verifiable Credentials use case, not a W3C Decentralized Identifiers use case Orie Steele @OR13b ... and the blue check is just a revocable credential issued by twitter.

• The fediverse is happening. Here’s how to take part Ben Werdmuller - As Evan Prodromou says, this is happening. The fediverse is growing much faster than any centralized social network, and you’re going to want to be involved.

Mastodon Discovery Heres Tom With the Weather

When you search on an account identifier on Mastodon, your browser makes a request to your Mastodon instance:

/api/v2/search?q=%40herestomwiththeweather%40mastodon.social&resolve=true&limit=5

Identity not SSI

• OpenID Presentations at November 2022 OpenID Workshop and IIW Self Issued

• Announcing Ubisecure’s Identity Server 2022.2 release Ubisecure

• ForgeRock's new cloud-native governance is purpose-built to help solve security and compliance challenges for large enterprises at scale Forgerock 

• Microsoft's Certificate-Based Authentication Enables Phishing-Resistant MFA Dark Reading

• Biometric technology revolutionises identity space Intelligent CISO

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