Announcements and updates of any kind that WG members want to share.
- Drummond Reed shared that Evernym was acquired by Avast
- Tim Bouma is now Director of Verification Assessment at the CIO Council of Canada
- Antti Kettunen is a member of the for drafting a European Digital Identity Wallet interface for general purposes
- "Establishment of a CEN TC 224 Ad Hoc Group on European Digital Identity Wallets
TC 224 establishes an Ad Hoc Group on European Digital Identity Wallets." - Subgroup of ISO that is still in the beginning stages
- Currently having meetings exploring what decentralized identity standards in this space should be included so it is not just focused in the ISO mDL model
- Bart referenced: https://nextcloud.idunion.org/s/D2cbMi6w8t3nPYj
- Daniel Bachenheimer is also working at ISO in SC 17 on identity documents
- Antti said they are comparing the different efforts in standardization of digital credentials
- Tim Bouma said that in his work for the Canadian government on digital credentials was more on the management than the technical side.
- Daniel Bachenheimer said that the ISO work touched on a whole lot of areas, including security and biometrics
- Darrell O'Donnell said that the security questions are very important and challenging
- Tim Bouma said this is why the ToIP stack is important in terms of bringing this all together. We have moved from documents to instances to verifiable credentials. The Pan-Canadian Trust Framework tries to distill down the vital pieces. One of the big learnings of the provinces is that a holistic thinking is needed; fragmented approaches won't work.
- Bart Suichies believes that the document paradigm is limiting. Certain credentials are special. So document-centric thinking is holding us back. Tim agrees that "the winds are blowing back in that direction" and we need to be careful about that. We need more greenfield thinking. For example, the question with driver's licenses also involves car registration. The document-centric paradigm is around establishing the authenticity of a document vs establishing an identity.
- Antti Kettunen: eIDAS is a challenge to what Tim said earlier, because a lot of the role-definitions and requirements are now becoming part of the regulation.
- Daniel Bachenheimer: that clerk is supposed to follow ICAO TRIP for issuance and Canada (IRCC) performs deduplication to establish uniqueness within the population (Identity Proofing)
- Darrell O'Donnell recommends the Northern Block podcast with Phil Windley.