Identosphere 93 • DIDComm V2 Approved • Verification Patterns • Dynamic Data Economy • Advanced DIDComm Messaging
Web3, Web5, and Self Sovereign Identity (Verifiable Credentials+): policy, standardization, interop, data privacy, events and other updates.
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The Business of Self_Sovereign Identity (SSI) : IIW 1/2 Day Workshop 8/4
Digital Identity Across Asia IIW Special Topic 1/2 Day 8/9 (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
Decentralized Web Camp 8/24-28 in Northern California (Kaliya’s attending & encouraging SSI folks to participate)
Hyperledger 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. First public presentation of the ToIP reference architecture and the start public review
Open Source Summit Europe Linux Foundation , Dublin Ireland 9/13-16
Identity Week USA (formerly Connect:ID) Washington DC 10/4-5
Infrachain Summit 10/4 - The Summit is about real business – not the next hype. The event is centered on operational use cases in the world of 3rd party distributed trust.
Internet Identity Workshop #35 11/14-16, Mountain View CA
Explainers
Decentralized identifiers - Self-Sovereign Identity livebook Manning
Worried About Digital Identity? - Continuum Loop Inc. Christine Martin
SSI (Self-Sovereign Identity): The Most Important Acronym You've Probably Never Heard Of A glimpse of VR & AR
Org News
Public-private partnerships in health: The journey ahead for open source Linux Foundation Public Health
OpenID Foundation Publishes “Open Banking and Open Data: Ready to Cross Borders?” OpenID
HCF announces Dynamic Data Economy v1.0 Human Colossus Foundation
a trust infrastructure that preserves the structural, definitional, and contextual integrity (DDE Principle 1) of any object and their relationships in the Semantic domain, the factual authenticity (DDE Principle 2) of any recorded event in the Inputs domain, and the consensual veracity (DDE Principle 3) of any purpose-driven policy or notice in the Governance domain.
Keep Badges Weird: helping people understand the badges landscape Doug Belshaw, We Are Open Co-op
Open Recognition is the awareness and appreciation of talents, skills and aspirations in ways that go beyond credentialing. This includes recognising the rights of individuals, communities, and territories to apply their own labels and definitions. Their frameworks may be emergent and/or implicit.” (What is Open Recognition, anyway?)
Company News
New US Digital Identity Act Expected to Pass, Paving the Way For Next Gen ID FindBiometrics
How Self-Sovereign Identities Will Influence Public Services KuppingerCole
Credivera Joins Microsoft Partner Network as Verifiable Credentials Provider
Introducing the Auth0 Research Program auth0
give direct input towards our product improvements
Use the Okta CLI to Build Secure Python Apps Okta
Teach you how to create your first application
Learn about authentication and authorization credentials
Set up hosted authentication with Okta and try it out
Fintech Humans and One37 Identity Enter Into Strategic Partnership in Germany Bloomberg
SSI framework is adopted in Germany and throughout the EU as a key privacy-by-design framework. Through its membership in DIACC, One37 contributes to the future of digital identity by leveraging the lessons from its own real-life use-cases in Canada where Verifiable Credentials play an increasingly crucial role.
Public Sector
Collected submissions on AU Digital Identity system Lockstep
The international digital identity industry has moved comprehensively towards decentralised verifiable credentials and strong client-side authentication tools (especially through the FIDO Alliance); Australia needs to catch up with these standards.
The Australian states are implementing digitised credentials at a rapid rate, refocusing from Who a citizen is, to What attributes and claims they need to prove online; DTA risks being left behind by these developments.
Lockstep TDIF DTA Submission 171020
Lockstep Submission – AU Digital Identity Legislation (1.0)
Lockstep Submission – AU Digital Identity Legislation Phase 2 210714
Lockstep Submission – Trusted Digital Identity Legislation Phase 3 211027
New US Digital Identity Act Expected to Pass, Paving the Way For Next Gen ID FindBiometrics
Europe
What is EBSI? EBSI making information easy to verify and almost impossible to fake
Below you will find a series of publications that will walk you through the technologies that make it possible for Public Administrations and Businesses to easily verify and trust
Self-Sovereign Digital Identity Wallets for Citizens TAGES
TR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for EU Affairs organized an EU Programs and Project Opportunities Hybrid Workshop on May 11-12, 2022 [...]
11 May 2022: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GKlgfRSCeXI
12 May 2022: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DQIgwVJvFuE
EIDAS 2.0 Turns To Self-Sovereign Identification To Bring Users Ownership And Control Forbes
Standards Work
DIF Monthly #28
Table of contents: 1. Foundation News; 2. Group Updates; 3. Member Updates; 4. Digital Identity Community; .5. Funding; 6. Events; 7. Hackathons; 8. Jobs; 9. Metrics; 10. Get involved! Join DIF
Verification Patterns, Part 1 Verite
verification is off-chain (and generally fast/inexpensive, depending on the provider), and since this avoids on-chain storage of potentially correlatable data
Verification Patterns, Part 2 Verite
explains the did:pkh/CACAO variation for Verite data models and flows, which provides an entry path for wallets that may not support sufficient functionality for emerging decentralized identity patterns
DIDComm v2 reaches approved spec status! DIF Blog
DIDComm defines how messages are composed into application-level protocols and workflows.
Advanced DIDComm Messaging Karim Stekelenburg (Animo Solutions)
for DIDComm to provide a potential replacement for commonly used chat protocols like WhatsApp (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)), Telegram (MTProto), or Signal (Signal Protocol), it needs to support modern chat features we use everyday
Decentralized Identifiers: Implications for Your Data, Payments and Communications Impervious
Through the DID Specification, service endpoints and DIDComm, Impervious has interlaced DIDs with Bitcoin Lightning, IPFS, WebRTC and resilient relays to introduce a new peer-to-peer internet standard with practical applications for mitigating censorship and surveillance risk.
[SCITT] Endor: A SCITT PoC for W3C Verifiable Credentials
I made this today: https://github.com/OR13/endor [...] nice thing about endorsing W3C Verifiable Credentials is that they are already an abstraction that applies to "non software supply chain" use Cases [...] we model cyber physical supply chain flows
^^^ inspired by : IETF 114: Plenary (video)
GLEIF vLEI Verifiable Credentials containing trusted organization identity and roles RapidLEI
will replace manual processes needed to access and confirm an entity’s identity across all industries.
Verifiable Health Data: Demonstrating Verifiable Credentials using Cardea Youtube
members from across the community come together to test interoperability between systems, networks, agents and more.
Thoughtful
Stoic Sovereign Identity (SSI) Simone Ravaioli
KYC
KYC/AML: How crypto will change a TradFi standard forever Panther Protocol
trust during uncertain times – How KYC crypto solutions can lead the way IDnow (recently-released ‘Crypto in KYC – Growth through trust’ )
Web3
How to get started learning web5 Nathan Gould
Web3 has already shown us one potential solution to web2's data portability problem. […] No more onboarding forms -- just "Connect with Metamask" and you're done.
metaverse is going to suck for privacy The A Register
“Exploring the Unprecedented Privacy Risks of the Metaverse," boffins at UC Berkeley in the US and the Technical University of Munich in Germany play-tested an "escape room" virtual reality (VR) game
Crypto Securities Market is Waiting to be Unlocked. But First We Need Workable Rules. Coinbase
Our petition calls on the SEC to develop a workable regulatory framework for digital asset securities guided by formal procedures and a public notice-and-comment process, rather than through arbitrary enforcement
The shortest definition of Web3 reb00ted
web1: read
web2: read + write
web3: read + write + own
Those Things Cannot Be Done Without Web3 Ontology
If you want to explain Web3 in the simplest language, I think it is a decentralized collaboration model.
Experts Always Say About Decentralized Identity, the Metaverse and Web3 Anonym
We’ll all be using personal keys, blockchains and decentralized applications to limit the amount of personal information we expose to data brokers, data breaches and dodgy business practices.
Web5 Roadmap TBD
Our major deliverables include:
Decentralized Identifier network node on production and publicly available
Decentralized Web Node on production and publicly available
Verifiable Credential service on production and available to partners
Decentralized Web Platform client/server SDK with all components bundled in a single package
Wallet in publicly usable state across Web, desktop and mobile
Decentralized Web Application runtime ready for developer reliance
Souls, Tokens, and Verifiable Credentials - Indicio Tech Sam Curren
“Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul” has generated much discussion as a more advanced and beneficial way of applying an NFT-type technology to encode “social relationships of trust” in Soul-Based Tokens.
7 Essential Ingredients of a Metaverse Future
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