Identosphere 92 • Tykn's D-ID Model • W3C: Oh Yes They DID! • New TOIP Task Forces

Upcoming events, podcasts, videos, news releases, development and the latest breakthroughs around putting users in control over PII.

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Jul 27, 2022

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Upcoming

National digital trust summit will help NZ 7/27 (Registration)
Digital Trust Hui Taumata July 27, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, Leading the conversation around trust, digital identity and New Zealand’s economic future.
Understanding and using Microsoft Entra Verified IDs John Craddock 28th July
The Business of Self-Sovereign Identity IIW Special Topic 1/2 day event - August 4th
Digital Identity Across Asia IIW Special Topic 1/2 day event- August 9 (in US Evening 8/8)
Exploring digital identity for a Decentralized Society — a RadicalxChange Open Space (virtual) unConference - August 16th and 18th - Kaliya & Heidi are helping with this event.
Decentralized Web Camp 8/24-28 in Northern California (Kaliya’s attending & encouraging SSI folks to participate)
Hyper Ledger Global Forum 9/12-14 - Kaliya will be attending.
The Trust Over IP Foundation is holding a 1/2 Day ToIP Mini-Summit at Open Source Summit Dublin 9-14
The AddOn for this Co-Located event is free. The highlight of this Mini-Summit will be the first public presentation of the ToIP Technical Architecture Specification (aka: the ToIP reference architecture) and the start of a public review.
Open Source Summit Europe Linux Foundation , Dublin Ireland 9/13-16
Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5
Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View CA

Report outs

A Revolution Doesn’t Look Like a Revolution Velocity Network

Last week we had +35 of the leading and most innovative workforce tech vendors come together to discuss the trailblazing solutions for tomorrow’s workforce they develop on top of Velocity Network™, the Internet of Careers®.

Viky Manaila 💯• 3rd+ Digital Identity, Digital Signatures and PKI expert Linkedin

38 countries, 6 continents, more than 250 participants to the #webinar co-hosted by Intesi Group S.p.A. and Avast yesterday. THANK YOU to each and everyone!
Here is the recording for those of you who didn't manage to attend but want to stay informed on #eid #wallet #eidas #digitalidentity #ssi

Useful Tool for Ecosystem thinking

How to create an effective Decentralized ID Model Tykn

The Decentralized ID Model is a strategic template used by Tykn to effectively develop and document an organization’s Decentralized ID ecosystem.

Multi-Cloud orchestration makes identity work IDRamp

It’s called decentralized identity orchestration and brings with it uniform security controls and functionality to your applications, services, and clouds. And built using open source and open standards, it establishes vendor neutrality, provides superior agility for continuous digital transformation, and propels digital business forward.

Establish trust in verifiable credential issuers in Self-sovereign identity ecosystems using TRAIN, by DTU Compute in Lyngby, Denmark.

This paper illustrates how TRAIN (Trust mAnagement INfrastructure), an approach based on established components like ETSI trust lists and the Domain Name System (DNS), can be used as a trust registry component to provide a holistic approach for trust management in SSI ecosystems.

W3C DID Recommendation

Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation read to see who contributed comments (and who didn’t)

For individuals in particular, DIDs can put them back in control of their personal data and consent, and also enable more respectful bi-directional trust relationships where forgery is prevented, privacy is honored, and usability is enhanced.

W3C launches Decentralized Identifiers as a web standard in the Daily Swig: Cybersecurity news and views.

“I would summarize the overall impact of DIDs on cybersecurity as making digital signing and encryption much more widely available than today’s conventional X.509-based public key infrastructure (PKI),” Drummond Reed, director of trust services at Avast

W3C overrules objections by Google, Mozilla to decentralized identifier spec Oh no, he DIDn't in the Register

The DID specification describes a way to deploy a globally unique identifier without a centralized authority (eg, Apple for Sign in with Apple) as a verifying entity.

Policy

Agency to hear public comment at hearing on August 24 and 25 as part of rulemaking process CPPA CA

A hearing on the proposed regulations will occur on August 24 and 25, 2022 at 9:00 am Pacific Time. Media and members of the public are encouraged to RSVP via the link above.

2022 GDF Report CRYPTOASSETS AND SANCTIONS COMPLIANCE A PRIMER GDF

There is a common misconception that cryptoassets provide a ready-made avenue for sanctions evasion because they sit outside the regulatory and legal perimeter.

Company News

Indicio Launches Proven, A Complete Trusted Digital Ecosystem For Sharing Actionable, Trustworthy Data

Decentralized identity has long been seen as the solution to the interconnected problems of verification, privacy, and security. With Indicio Proven, the marketplace now has a range of ready-to-use products to implement that solution and create Trusted Digital Ecosystems for sharing and verifying data at any scale."

Prove it all with Indicio Proven Indicio

Sometimes called “self-sovereign identity,” or “user-centric identity,” or “reusable identity,” the open source technology behind Proven provides an authoritative way to authenticate any data without having to check in with the source of that data — or go through a third party.

Press Release IDRamp & Trust Stamp

Together, they will launch an innovative biometric multi-factor authentication (“MFA”) offering that can be augmented with a range of leading access management, social sign-on, and bring-your-own identity services, all through IdRamp’s no-code platform.

Condatis revolutionizes staff management with Microsoft Entra Verified ID Microsoft

At Edinburgh-based Condatis, as more employees transition from a hybrid work model to a full return to the office, they’re being greeted by a new, intuitive sign-in experience built on virtual, verifiable credentials that provide value-added access to office spaces and services.

What is Web5? | TBD

Explainer \ Q&A

Three new ToIP Task Forces

The ToIP Technology Stack Working group is starting an Artificial Intelligence and Metaverse Technology Task Force

to address opportunities and challenges brought on by advances in AI, Metaverse and related technologies in relation to ToIP’s mission of creating interoperable trust over the Internet.

The ToIP Governance Stack Working group is starting a - Governance Architecture Task Force

Thus the new Governance Architecture TF will launch based on the components in the ToIP Tech Architecture Stack

The ToIP Concepts and Terminology Working group is proposing starting a - Mental Models Task Force

Mental models explain in detail how a set of concepts are related within a specific domain—a “mini-ontology”
They are usually documented both in writing and in UML diagrams
They add much greater depth and cross-conceptual understanding than glossaries alone

Use Case

Drone Pilot Credentialing for Air Safety ToIP

Discussed the approach and the implementation challenges of drone pilot credentialing for air safety using verifiable credentials at the July 21, 2022 Ecosystem Foundry Working Group of the Trust Over IP Foundation.

Decentralized Identity of Things Winner Microsoft Decentralized Identity Hackathon

DIDoT - DID of Things. Decentralized Identity of Things. Allergen management in food shopping. Based on the concept of ‘things’ having verifiable credentials.

Supercharge your Job Search with Next-gen Tech results of Affinidi hackathon

They came up with impressive submissions, ranging from job portals showcasing verified jobs and companies to scam alert verification features.

Energy Web and Volkswagen deliver 24/7 renewable energy charging solution for electric vehicles

advanced EV charging solutions can empower EV owners to set their own preferences for when and where they get their energy. For instance, they can select to charge using wind and solar resources, from energy assets within a 10 km radius, and target 80% charge by 5 pm

Macro

BIS Annual Report section III. The future monetary system on page 41 in the chart

Point 5. User control over data—data governance arrangements should ensure users’ privacy and control over data:
Today: Users trust intermediaries to keep data safe, but they do not have sufficient control over their data
Crypto: Transactions are public on the blockchain—which will not work with “real names”
Tomorrow: New data architectures can give users privacy and control over their data

A problem of definitions in economics that create conflicts MyDigitalFootprint

Because of the way we define growth - we aim for inflation and need to control it. However, this scale thinking then frames how we would perceive sustainability as the framing sets these boundaries. What happens if we change it round?

Beyond SSI

Tech Tools for Human Rights Documentation is Launched The Engine Room

Human Rights Documentation Learnings from interviews with civil society documenters and others
Tool Development Insights from tool developers in the human rights documentation space
Transitional Justice Tech tools from a transitional justice perspective

Craig Burton, one of the giant of our industry, passed away on July the 20th

10 years almost to the day after his famous "SAML is dead" presentation at Cloud Identity Summit 2012. Here's a mini thread about Craig.
Everyone using a computer today owes something to Craig, if anything for the sheer fact that he co-founded Novell, the company that ushered the modern networking era. There's a beautiful piece about him on Forbes