About

Decentralized Identity Foundation

Vision

Enable a world where decentralized identity solutions allow entities to gain control over their identities and allow trusted interactions.

Mission

The Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) exists to advance the interests of the decentralized identity community, including performing research and development to advance “pre-competitive” technical foundations towards established interoperable, global standards.




Governing Documents

The documents that are currently accepted by the foundation

DIF Charter

This “Project Charter” establishes the terms under which this Project operates

Charter
DIF Operating Addendum

This document governs DIF's governing bodies

Operating Addendum Steering Committee election process
DIF Participation Matrix

The list of benefits of DIF membership and other participation formats offered by the foundation

Participation Matrix
DIF Subsidiary assessment process

As recognition of this variety of legal and liability structures, DIF Steering Committee considers the following when a subsidiary of a large corporation applies for DIF membership.

Subsidiary assessment
DIF Code of Conduct

Creating an open, healthy and productive culture where members and the community can build and grow together. This is a living document, feel free to comment.

Code of Conduct GitHub - Code of Conduct
DIF Brand Guidelines

Guidelines and logos to represent DIF in the public

Brand Guidelines

Steering Committee members

The following DIF members are the elected representatives of DIF's Steering Committee

Ankur Banerjee
Sam Curren
Jan Christoph Ebersbach
Rouven Heck
Andor Kesselman
Steven McCown
Matt McKinney
Markus Sabadello
Eric Scouten
Catherine Nabbala Seppuuya
Yodahe Zemichael

DIF Ambassadors

The thought leaders and subject matter experts spreading awareness of decentralized identity technologies among businesses and the general public

Misha Deville
Dr. Carsten Stöcker

Developer Advocates

DIF's developer advocates empower and inspire developers to achieve more by providing access, information, and resources

Mostafa Nagy
Dolores-Mai Macauley

DIF team

The team helping the DIF community

Grace Rachmany