Decentralized Identity Foundation first anniversary
Decentralized Identity Foundation Grows To 56 Members In Our First Year
May 23, 2018 marks the Decentralized Identity Foundation’s first anniversary. Over the past year, DIF has grown from a handful of founding organizations to 56 members. Together, we’re working to shape the future of decentralized identity technology and standards.
Technology Under Development
DIF members are working together to build a variety of technologies. Much of this work is being done in collaboration with the larger open source community through the W3C and events such as Rebooting Web of Trust and the Internet Identity Workshop.
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)
Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier for verifiable, “self-sovereign” digital identity. DIDs are fully under the control of their owner, independent from any centralized registry, identity provider, or certificate authority.
Universal Resolver
The Universal Resolver is similar to Bind in the DNS system. However, instead of working with domain names, it works with self-sovereign identifiers that can be created and registered directly by their owners. This project was organized by DIF members with funding from British Columbia.
Chainpoint
Chainpoint is an open standard for anchoring data to a blockchain and creating a timestamp proof.
Hubs
Hubs are datastores containing semantic data objects at well-known locations. Each object in a Hub is signed by an identity and accessible via a globally recognized API format that explicitly maps to semantic data objects. Hubs are addressable via unique identifiers maintained in a global namespace. Several members within DIF have announced work on hub implementations, including Microsoft and Sovrin.
DIF Steering Committee Members
We’d like to thank the following Steering Committee members for providing leadership and helping DIF grow over the past year.
Drummond Reed — Chief Trust Officer, Evernym
Rouven Heck — Co-Founder & Project Lead, uPort
Ryan Shea — Co-founder, Blockstack
Muneeb Ali — Co-founder, Blockstack
Wayne Vaughan — Chief Executive Officer, Tierion
Daniel Buchner — Senior PM, Decentralized Identity, Microsoft
Siva Kannan — Chief Software Development Officer, Gem
Matt Smith — Software Architect, Gem
Dan Gisolfi — CTO Trusted Identity |Distinguished Engineer, IBM