# MDL

* [Meet Kantara’s new Executive Director, Kay Chopard](https://www.ubisecure.com/podcast/kay-chopard-kantara/) Lets Talk about Digital Identity
  > Kay explores why identity is so critical in so many applications; her hope for more promotion of Kantara’s great work and to advance opportunities for collaboration; Kantara’s new mobile drivers licenses (mDLs) work group; Women in Identity and the problem of lack of diversity in standards working groups; and why access and inclusion is one of the biggest challenges facing identity today.
* [Verifiable Driver's Licenses and ISO-18013-5 (mDL)](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Nov/0105.html) Manu Sporny (Monday, 29 November)
  > Spruce, MATTR, and Digital Bazaar have collaborated on creating an interoperability test suite for something we're calling the "Verifiable Driver's License" (temporary name):
* [The test suite](http://w3id.org/vdl/interop-reports) demonstrates that a few things are possible in addition to what mDL provides:
  > 1. The mDL data model can be expressed cleanly using W3C Verifiable Credentials
* ["Apple launches the first driver’s license and state ID in Wallet with Arizona”](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Mar/0231.html) Liam McCarty (Wednesday, 23 March)
  > It’s sad and frustrating that this isn’t based on verifiable credentials… it appears vendor lock in is going to be hard to prevent.
  > 
  > For anyone who missed the November coverage about this, here’s a pretty outrageous CNBC article: "[Apple is sticking taxpayers with part of the bill for rollout of tech giant's digital ID card](https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/14/apple-sticking-taxpayers-with-part-of-the-bill-for-digital-id-rollout.html)”
* [Mike Jones shares](https://self-issued.info/?p=2136) that CBOR (Concise Binary Object Representation)  is officially a [specification at IETF](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8943) - woohoo! and it is a key part of [ISO’s mDL standard](https://www.iso.org/committee/45144.html) (date fields must use it).
  > The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR), as specified in RFC 7049, is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of extremely small code size, fairly small message size, and extensibility without the need for version negotiation.
- [The selective disclosure industry landscape, including Verifiable Credentials and ISO Mobile Driver Licenses (mDL)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/114/materials/slides-114-jwp-why-selective-disclosure-00) – [Kristina Yasuda](https://twitter.com/kristinayasuda)

* [Meet Kantara’s new Executive Director, Kay Chopard](https://www.ubisecure.com/podcast/kay-chopard-kantara/) Lets Talk about Digital Identity
  > Kay explores why identity is so critical in so many applications; her hope for more promotion of Kantara’s great work and to advance opportunities for collaboration; Kantara’s new mobile drivers licenses (mDLs) work group; Women in Identity and the problem of lack of diversity in standards working groups; and why access and inclusion is one of the biggest challenges facing identity today.
* [Working Group for Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials](https://kantarainitiative.org/introducing-kantaras-working-group-for-privacy-enhancing-mobile-credentials/) Kantara Initiative
  > Clearly the use of a driver’s license goes well beyond proving eligibility to drive a vehicle. It has become the de-facto standard for proving that you are who you say you are – and are entitled to the product or service requested. An increasing number of states are adopting mobile ID systems to recognise and verify mobile credentials including driver’s licenses (mDL).
* [Kantara Releases Report on Identity and Privacy Protection For mobile Driver’s Licenses](https://kantarainitiative.org/kantara-releases-report-on-identity-and-privacy-protection-for-mobile-drivers-licenses/)
  > The report outlines how to implement mDL systems as Privacy Enhancing Technologies. It provides guidance on protecting people’s individual privacy and the digital identifiers of an individual who carries or uses an mDL.
* [Kantara lays out trust-building recommendations for mDLs](https://kantarainitiative.org/kantara-lays-out-trust-building-recommendations-for-mdls/)
  > A global digital ID association has published steps vendors and others need to take in order to build effective mobile driving license services that also put ID holders in control of their identity. The Kantara Initiative’s report starts from the premise that trust in mobile driving licenses grows with the degree of control that license holders have over the documents, their privacy and

* [​​Mobile Driver’s Licence (mDL) VS. Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)](https://inatba.org/identity/mobile-drivers-licence-mdl-self-sovereign-identity-ssi-comparison/) INATBA

The ISO mDL specification (ISO-compliant Driving License or IDL)  is purpose driven, as its name implies, but is said to be specifically intended to:

- enable verifiers not affiliated with or associated with the issuing authority to gain access to and authenticate the information
- allow the holder of the driving license to decide what information to release to a verifier
- include the ability to update information frequently, and to authenticate information at a high level of confidence.


* [Verifiable Driver's Licenses and ISO-18013-5 (mDL)](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Nov/0105.html) Manu Sporny (Monday, 29 November)
  > Spruce, MATTR, and Digital Bazaar have collaborated on creating an interoperability test suite for something we're calling the "Verifiable Driver's License" (temporary name):
* [ISO/IEC 18013-5 vs Self-Sovereign Identity: A proposal for an mDL Verifiable Credential](https://www.procivis.ch/post/iso-iec-18013-5-vs-self-sovereign-identity-a-proposal-for-an-mdl-verifiable-credential) Procivis
  > in the context of government identity programs we see it as useful to compare them on the following parameters – background, credential data model & trust anchor and transmission protocols.
* [Community Project on mDL and VCs](https://newsletter.identosphere.net/i/73037307/where-the-wc-verifiable-credentials-meets-the-iso-mobile-driving-license)

Next week we are hosting two community calls to collect input for the project On Sept 27th in [Asia morning time](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/where-the-w3c-vcs-meets-the-iso-180135-mdl-apac-time-tickets-425211377677) and on Sept 27th in [US morning time](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/where-the-w3c-vcs-meets-the-iso-180135-mdl-eu-africa-americas-time-tickets-425242470677).
* [Kantara lays out trust-building recommendations for mDLs](https://kantarainitiative.org/kantara-lays-out-trust-building-recommendations-for-mdls/)

A global digital ID association has published steps vendors and others need to take in order to build effective mobile driving license services that also put ID holders in control of their identity. The Kantara Initiative’s report starts from the premise that trust in mobile driving licenses grows with the degree of control that license holders have over the documents, their privacy and
* [“Decentralised Identity: What’s at Stake?”](https://inatba.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/2020-11-INATBA-Decentralised-Identity-001.pdf). ← earlier paper
  > Looking at the above comparison, It is clear that both approaches strive to maintain user control of their personal data, selective disclosure/data minimization, and cryptographic methods to prove the integrity of identity claims. The differences are: first in their reliance (mDL) or independence (SSI) from issuer involvement in verification interactions, and second in their cryptographic approach, where the mDL relies on externally provided cryptographic tools while SSI builds on holder controlled private keys
* [An Identity Wallet Bill of Rights - Starting With the Mobile Driver License](https://blog.spruceid.com/an-identity-wallet-bill-of-rights/) Spruce Systems

Spruce’s continued mission is to let users control their data across the web, whether it’s web2, web3, or beyond. This also applies to credentials issued by existing entities, such as the Mobile Driver License (mDL) issued by motor vehicle authorities across the world.
- [The selective disclosure industry landscape, including Verifiable Credentials and ISO Mobile Driver Licenses (mDL)](https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/114/materials/slides-114-jwp-why-selective-disclosure-00) – [Kristina Yasuda](https://twitter.com/kristinayasuda)