5I/ Trust Establishment - DIF & ToIP / Mike Ebert

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Session 5I

Trust Establishment for Machine Readable Governance


Session Convener: Mike Ebert

Notes-taker(s): Mike Ebert

Tags / links to resources / technology discussed, related to this session:


Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hd-4uKEPv7cbf8kveOJAQtmH9H6m7dq7/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=112759837137305414950&rtpof=true&sd=true


DIF Working Group, Work Item:

https://github.com/decentralized-identity/claims-credentials/blob/main/work_items/trust_establishment.md

https://github.com/decentralized-identity/trust-establishment/issues

Calendar: dif-calendar (DIF Claims and Credentials Working Group meets weekly: Monday 10am PT)


Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUf7U4aKj4


You can try the editor yourself:


For more information, go here:

https://github.com/Indicio-tech/governance-editor

https://indicio.tech/governance-editor


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


How do you know which issuers you can trust?

Build a list, sign it, and publish it!


Once you build a list of trusted issuers, what else can you do?

List schemas, create roles, and link schemas and DIDs to the roles (and thus to each other)


Are there future extensions of this functionality?

Beyond issuance, you could add other roles–verification roles, API roles, storage roles…


Indicio has done work with role-based workflows (so that the workflows or processes in written or human-readable governance can be followed and verified by the software as well). Hopefully we can add optional workflows to the governance file/trust list work that is being done.


Finally, DIF work will be merged with ToIP work in a joint effort soon. Waiting on a memorandum of understanding to be signed and then joint meetings to be scheduled.