Rationale

KERI has been fostered independently in the open source community since the original white paper (here) authored by Dr Samuel Smith. KERI has seen adoption in multiple sectors most notably the GLEIF vLEI ecosystem LINK and subsequent launch in to production January of 2023.

It has independently fostered and developed seven supplemental specifications. KERI has a reference implementation KERIpy and implementations of CESR in both TypeScript and Rust.

KERI has an active open source community participating, promoting and representing KERI at events like IIW and the European Identity Conference.

Purpose

The purpose of the Key Event Receipt Infrastructure (KERI) Task Force is to help draft and incubate a family of specifications that defines the KERI ecosystem.

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