decentralized-id.github.io/_posts/web-standards/2019-03-03-specs-standards.md
2020-04-04 20:32:51 -04:00

20 KiB
Raw Permalink Blame History

date title layout permalink canonical_url redirect_from categories tags last_modified_at
2019-03-03 Web Standards and the Emerging Decentralized ID Stack single web-standards/ https://decentralized-id.com/specs-standards/
standards
standards/
specs-standards/
Web Standards
Hyperledger Foundation
Index
Credentials Community Group
DIF
FIDO
OpenID
XDI
W3C
OASIS
JSON-LD
2020-04-04

I've begun exploring and becoming more familiar with the decentralized nature of digital identity. Open processes for standardization are critical components for enabling identification that's both decentralized and widely interoperable.

Why Engage with Standards?

too many people complain about problems but dont step to Fix It!. There are certainly a lot of flawed standards but they make interoperability possible not perfect but possible. If you havent used them then you have no right to complain that they are too complex, too simple (even in the same standard) or too domain specific or any of the other rants and raves that go on.

If youre willing to put up with a lot of work for incremental improvements then step up and join a standard. Whether that is a (relatively) fast moving standard group like OASIS (www.oasis-open.org) or a slower but more international group like ISO you will learn. Youll also benefit from working with experts. These experts donate their time and are more than happy to provide ideas, guidance, and leadership.

Who Are the Identerati? - ForgeRock

Youre familiar with digital identity standards like OpenID Connect, OAuth, and User-Managed Access, fundamental elements of privacy and security on the internet. But have you ever wondered how they came to be? A lot of work on these protocols went on (and goes on) behind t...

Building Blocks for a New Architecture

After looking at the many different digital platforms and mechanisms: centralized, decentralized, proof-of-work, proof-of-stake, the list goes on, I have concluded that all of these new platforms boil down to fulfilling three core societal functions: value, identity, and status, underpinned by consensus.

High Level Overview

  • A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems NIST CYBERSECURITY WHITE PAPER (DRAFT) BLOCKCHAIN IDENTITY MANAGEMENT APPROACHES JULY 9, 2019

    Identity management systems (IDMSs) are widely used to provision user identities while managing authentication, authorization, and data sharing both within organizations as well as on the Internet more broadly. Traditional identity systems typically suffer from single points of failure, lack of interoperability, and privacy issues such as encouraging mass data collection and user tracking. Blockchain technology has the potential to support novel data ownership and governance models with built-in control and consent mechanisms, which may benefit both users and businesses by alleviating these concerns; as a result, blockchain-based IDMSs are beginning to proliferate. This work categorizes these systems into a taxonomy based on differences in architecture, governance models, and other salient features. We provide context for the taxonomy by describing related terms, emerging standards, and use cases, while highlighting relevant security and privacy considerations.

  • Hyperledger Identity Working Group - Identity Standards

  • The Self-Sovereign Identity Stack by Oliver Terbu OSI


The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org[ϟ]

Standards Bodies

and other orgs worth keeping an eye on

I will begin with a listing of standards bodies, organizations and open processes, to which I'm paying attention (in addition to those previously gathered). From there, integrate and expand, as able.

{% include figure image_path="/images/1280px-Who-Runs-the-Internet-graphic.png" alt="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archivo:Who-Runs-the-Internet-graphic.png" caption="Internet Governance" %}

W3C

Credentials Community Group

DID the Decentralized Identifier

Verifiable Credentials

DIF

Working Group Updates:

  • ☂️ InterOp Project - Demonstrating interoperability across various teams/project and technology stack.
  • 💡 Identifiers & Discovery - How people, organizations, and devices can be identified and located without centralized systems.
  • 💠 Storage & Compute - Secure, encrypted, privacy-preserving storage and computation of data.
  • 🛡️ Claims & Credentials - Verifying claims and assertions of identities.
  • 🔓 DID Auth - DID-based authentication specs, standards, and libraries.

Decentralized Identity & Trust Technology APAC/ASEAN Call

APAC and ASEAN engineers are historically under-represented in EU & US driven global efforts due to simple scheduling concerns — conference calls and other avenues of information sharing are often scheduled at inconvenient times for APAC and ASEAN participants. APAC and ASEAN engineers find it difficult to participate in communities that meet only between midnight and sunrise. This results in APAC and ASEAN solutions developing as parallels to their equivalent EU- & US-based global efforts, rather than as extensions of them or as interlocutors for them.

DIF starts DIDComm Working Group

Over the past few months, the DIF and Hyperledger Aries community have come together and agreed to work on a common work item aimed at developing secure communication based on Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) — hence the name DIDComm, which is short for DID Communication. Significant prior work in developing a messaging-based communication protocol using DIDs has been incubating in the HyperLedger (HL) Aries community, with the progress of this effort evident in the resulting Aries RFCs. To address the requirements of a broader and more heterogeneous community we selected DIF as the place to pursue the next phase of work associated with this effort. Presenting the progress of DIDcomm to other relevant working groups will drive the interoperability between the various decentralized identity vendors and hence enabling a range of decentralized identity-related use cases.

DID Auth


http://ssimeetup.org/introduction-did-auth-markus-sabadello-webinar-10

Decentralized Key Management-Agents


DKMS - An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle. Drummond Reed. SSIMeetup.org

Ethereum ERC-EIP

ERC725-735

Blockcerts

Schema

  • Schema — a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet. Schema.org vocabulary can be used with many different encodings, including RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD. These vocabularies cover entities, relationships between entities and actions, and can easily be extended through a well-documented extension model. Over 10 million sites use Schema.org to markup their web pages and email messages. Many applications from Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Yandex and others already use these vocabularies to power rich, extensible experiences."