* [OASIS Open Establishes European Foundation to Advance Open Collaboration Opportunities](https://www.oasis-open.org/2021/01/20/oasis-open-establishes-european-foundation-to-advance-open-collaboration-opportunities/) 2021-01-20
> “The OASIS Open Europe Foundation gives us a unique opportunity to work with the European Union and EU Member States to advance open source and standards projects,”
This document describes a mechanism to transfer digital credentials securely between two devices. Secure credentials may represent a digital key to a hotel room, a digital key to a door lock in a house or a digital key to a car. Devices that share credentials may belong to the same or two different platforms (e.g. iOS and Android). Secure transfer may include one or more write and read operations. Credential transfer needs to be performed securely due to the sensitive nature of the information.
Upcoming Work Group Calls
A lot of activity in this community happens every week in work groups. We are going to make more of an effort to highlight calls that may be of interest to folks and to do more coverage and linking to calls from the previous week that are interesting to a wider audience.
In short, it’s a way to say “this item is an email and here’s its value”, or “this item is an issuer/subject pair, here are those values”. This is useful in a variety of contexts where you want to identify someone but might have a variety of ways to do so.
I spoke with the editor of the draft to propose that we add a “did” format into this document, now that DID core is reasonably stable and the CR is published. She agreed that it would make sense but would rather have the experts in the DID community propose the actual text for the added section.
We kicked off the first Digital Identity Attestation Working Group meeting under the OpenSSF in August, 2020. The objective of this working group is to enable open source maintainers, contributors and end-users to understand and make decisions on the provenance or origin of the code they maintain, produce and use.
> The Chain Agnostic Standards Alliance (CASA) is a collection of working groups dedicated blockchain protocol-agnostic standards. CASA also publishes [Chain Agnostic Improvement Proposals](https://github.com/ChainAgnostic/CAIPs)which describe standards created by the different working groups.
