Join us in building an open source decentralized identity ecosystem for people, organizations, apps, and devices.

the pillars of a new ecosystem

• DECENTRALIZED IDENTITIES
• anchored by
• BLOCKCHAIN IDs
• linked to
• ZERO-TRUST DATASTORES
• that are
• UNIVERSALLY DISCOVERABLE

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building the future, together

• Identifiers, Names, and Discovery

  A key piece of the decentralized identity equation is how people, devices, and other entities in the world are identified absent a centrally owned registry. DIF seeks to address this by developing specifications, protocols, formats, and implementations for cross-chain rooting, indexing, and resolution of decentralized identifiers and names.

  Communication

  • Chairs: Jude Nelson and Drummond Reed

  Documents

  • W3C DID Spec W3C DID Resolution Spec DIF Universal Resolver (for DIDs) Intro to DID Auth

• Storage & Compute

  Secure storage and computation of data is crucial to the decentralization story. Just as identifiers and names must be self-sovereign to the owning entity, so too must their data and control over it. To create a system where these important features of data storage and compute are universally understood, DIF is working on specifications, protocols, and implementations of applications, services, packages, and libraries that ensure interoperability across systems and providers.

  Communication

  • Chairs: Daniel Buchner and Sam Curren

  Documents

  Identity Hubs Explainer Identity Hub System Diagram

• Attestations & Reputation

  Attestations are the backbone of trust and basis of reputation in decentralized identity systems. Attestations between groups of individuals and businesses are use to make important decisions in personal and business life. To address this area of identity, DIF intends to equip the decentralized identity community with the protocols, tools, and implementations necessary to create and validate identity attestations.

  Communication

  • Chairs: Wayne Vaughan and Jonathan Smith

  Documents

  Chainpoint 3.0 spec

• Use Cases & Requirements

  Understanding what to build based on the needs of people and organizations is even more important that understanding how to build it. DIF will endeavor to anchor its activities in the use cases and requirements it observes and gathers from users and consumers of the specifications, protocols, and implementations it develops.

  Communication

  • Chairs:John Jordan