Identosphere 184: More IIW Notes & Highlights • User Binding for Digital Credentials • VC-JOSE-COSE Candidate Recommendation • XRSelf • Decentralized Web Nodes
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There's always more than one session that I want to attend in any given time slot and choosing is hard. That's a common refrain. Luckily we have sessions notes that we publish in a Book of Proceedings. You can find additional photos from Doc Searls: Day 1 and Day 2.
A lot of Verifiable Credential-based services regulate people back into the client / server model. The vision of DIDComm is to enable VCs and all sorts of other interactions that can better our lives on the internet, with browsers, email, video calls and a host of other channels.
the W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model (VCDM), which is also at Candidate Recommendation stage, has been narrowed to only use JSON-LD to represent credentials. VC-JOSE-COSE secures VCDM payloads with JOSE, SD-JWT, or COSE signatures.
[...] lots of Verifiable Credential formats to choose from, and more on the way. Choices already existing include ISO mDoc, IETF SD-JWT, IETF JSON Web Proof (JWP), and W3C VCDM. The IETF is also planning to create a CBOR-based selective disclosure representation in the newly formed SPICE working group. It will be interesting to see how these all shake out in the marketplace!
DWN is a data storage and message relay mechanism that entities can use to locate data related to a given DID. It’s kind of like a decentralized Controller in the Model-View-Controller hashtag#MVC framework. hashtag#DWN is one of the hottest and the most critical projects in Web3 presentation (start at 9min mark):
Next up is using your did:web did for AnonCreds, add support for DIDComm / AnonCreds to the API (only builder at the moment), and Token Status List for SD-JWT VC revocation. What else should we add?
This week, the European Parliament confirmed the Ecodesign Sustainable Products Regulation (hashtag#ESPR). A significant step forward in sustainable policy, the ESPR mandates DPPs and that unsold clothing and electrical goods can no longer be destroyed
State agencies make progress on digital IDs that will improve remote transactions and reduce identity fraud. But the U.S. still needs a national vision.
The CNIL has analysed the main types of age verification systems in order to clarify its position on age verification on the Internet, particularly on pornographic sites for which such verification is mandatory. It specifies how such publishers could fulfil their legal obligations. However, CNIL finds that such current systems are circumventable and intrusive, and calls for the implementation of more privacy-friendly models.
As eIDAS2 prepares to go live, its implications extend far beyond the borders of the European Union, setting a new global standard for digital identity management. Organizations worldwide need to understand and prepare for these changes, ensuring they can operate effectively in a new era of digital identity. The 2024 European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) provides a unique opportunity to gain insights, share knowledge, and prepare for the future of digital identity, where security, privacy, and user control are at the forefront of digital transactions.
➔ Propose a concept for implementing the EUDI Wallet in Germany ➔ Identify the best architecture and operating model ➔ Conduct a public consultation process (with industry, public bodies, civil society, international partners, ...) ➔ Ensure EU-wide interoperability ➔ Ensure the EUDI Wallet in Germany meets the requirements of the use cases
Indicio Senior Software Engineer Colton Wolkins joins Identity Insights to discuss recent breakthroughs in connecting to IoT devices through DIDComm. He breaks down why you would want to use DIDComm for IoT, how it works, and offers a quick demonstration of the technology in action.
The music publishing side gets very complex. Often songs are written by multiple songwriters who are “signed” to different music publishers, meaning multiple publishers co-own the copyright. [...] There’s no central record of ownership or administration rights. Instead, you have many third-party databases that have built up over time, all doing relatively the same thing and that are divorced from the legal contracts that actually govern copyright ownership and administration rights. [Video]
Dror Gurevich, our CEO has joined Trevor Schachner at SHRM for an exciting episode of SHRM’s WorkplaceTech Spotlight, a SHRM podcast shining a light on the best future of work ideas and innovators. Dror and Trevor delved into the vast potential of Velocity Network as the next-generation public infrastructure for verifying workforce credentials.
To operate with a decentralized model of digital identities, the XR platforms would need to work together to develop the identity system, defining the standards that will apply and determining how the system will adapt to future technological changes. However, groups of volunteers set technical standards, and given the extensive time commitment involved in such work, standards risk being shaped by larger companies’ self-interest.
Based on the information on their “unofficial draft” on Github, the technological foundation of Orange is based on Bitcoin’s inscription. Orange embeds DID information directly on the blockchain, unlike other DID methods that rely on external data sources or additional dependencies. This method secures data permanence and integrity while enhancing the digital identities’ overall functionality and forward compatibility.
Affinidi aims to create a unified, holistic view of our digital identities, enabling new ways to leverage our data through a concept known as Holistic Identity.
Today, we dive into how Bluesky is built, sitting down with its two founding engineers: Daniel Holmgren and Paul Frazee. They take us through: Development timeline … Experimentation phase … v1 architecture … v2 architecture … Scaling the database layer … Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem … Reality of building a social network.
“No one told me what they’ll do with my eye,” de León, 57, told Rest of World. “But I did this out of need.”
De León, who lives off the $95 pension she receives from the state, had been desperate for money. Persuaded by her nephew, she agreed to have one of her irises scanned by Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s blockchain project. In exchange, she received nearly $50 worth of WLD, the company’s cryptocurrency.
