11F/ State of SSI in Europe and Necessity for Network-of-Networks (convened by Sovrin)

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State of SSI in Europe and Necessity for Network-of-Networks (convened by Sovrin)

Wednesday 11F

Convener: Andre Kudra (a.kudra@esatus.com)

Notes-taker(s): sankarshan

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps: 

  1. [Andre] Introduction and the role of Sovrin Foundation around the topic of SSI

    1. Focus of this session is around SSI in Europe (from business and related perspective)

    2. Hyperledger Indy and Aries technology stack

  2. ‘Network of networks’ which has been a key concept at the Sovrin Foundation

    1. The topic is meant to be a conversation as an outline based on material information which can be shared publicly

    2. EBSI is one of the funded projects from the EU

      1. ESSIF is one of the projects in this portfolio - have issued a request for proposal for consulting (not in the network of networks topic but other areas)

    3. Findy (Finland) - yet to go live. Has public and private partners.

    4. Projects underway at Spain and other member nations in EU

  3. Substantial funding behind Indy based technology stack deployments are being seen

    1. Germany has 3 major streams active in the identity space

      1. Gov digital (for public sector)

      2. ID Union - 2 fold - a project and a L1 Utility (as per the Trust over IP definition) project and Governance Framework; has started in 2020. Will be building a lot of use cases on Indy/Aries over a period of 3 years Includes EU member states and the 3 non EU nations. ID Union activity will have contributions to open source projects

      3. Germany is running an SSI pilot based on the Aries framework. First use case — hotel check in for business travelers (two data types: ID; corporate billing address). German eID card will be used to generate a VC by issuing on behalf of the issuer of the eID card.

    2. Mixed bag of projects and technologies which underline the topic/concept around ‘network of networks’. Organizations will come up with their networks and interoperability would be something that is inbuilt.

      1. EU Commission has identified the necessity of making this happen. So no ‘one blockchain to rule them all’. A cooperative approach would be needed to get into NoN - tokenisation, IoT etc have been part of the requirements

      2. 3 Sovrin member organizations have jointly created a position paper to address the necessity of this approach of NoN. This approach is endorsed by the Sovrin Foundation.

      3. Universal resolver, multi-ledger wallet etc are key components. A side-project to make a tangible NoN experiment is on the cards.

    3. [Andreas] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ssi-eidas-bridge/about

      1. [Alex Blom] https://vimeo.com/522501200

      2. https://gitlab.grnet.gr/essif-lab/infrastructure/validated-id/seb_project_summary

      3. https://github.com/validatedid/eidas-bridge

    4. [David De Troch] How would permissionless NoN look?

      1. [Timothy Ruff] But then that universal resolver becomes a central point of attack, and of trust, defeating the purpose of the ledger behind it.

      2. [Rouven Heck] It would be great to discuss a network of network, which is blockchain agnoistic… rather than Network of Indy networks …

    5. GLEIF can act as trust anchor for legal entity identifiers across SSI ecosystems. This doesn’t solve the credibility problem though. LEI can be issued to businesses as well as CEOs and executives within those organizations.

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