Rationale

KERI has been fostered independently developed in the open source community since the original white paper (here) authored by Dr Samuel Smith was published. 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 over time and 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.

As the community looks towards further standardization ToIP is an ideal venue to conduct further horizontal review and continue to inform the TSWG Trust spanning layer work.

The community feels adoption of the KERI and supplemental specifications would bolster both ToIP and the groups already invested heavily in KERI.

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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