IIW 31 Proposed Topics

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What topics are you planning to present about or lead a discussion about at this IIW?

• NIST SP 800-63-4
• The implications of people’s relationship choices with connected services and systems and how that engages our Human Operating System (HumanOS).
• KERI Key Event Receipt Infrastructure
• BC Gov initiatives on using Verifiable Credentials as part of a global Climate Accounting System. Hyperledger Aries agents/wallets and Hyperledger Indy DID utility ledgers. Interop testing.
• Verifiable credentials for public services
• I'd like to draw on early attempts from the 90s and onwards at establishing an Internet 'Identity commons' in order to understand current barriers to adoption, including an investigation of how regulation may facilitate the creation of an identity layer that service providers, such as social media vendors, will support.
• OpenID Connect, Self-Issued OpenID Provider developments, OpenID Connect Federation
• Self-issued OpenID Provider
• "SSI adoption Demo of Trinsic"
• A methodology for systematically assaying what's really inside COVID-19 apps
• Private or permissioned credentials in a community. Workflows for sharing private & public ancestry.
• Self Sovereign Identity
• My Data
• "Consent/Notification Leveraging Federated Identity for verifiable credentials Unsolved Privacy Topics: Purpose of use taxonomies, basis for release justifications, etc"
• Educational Verifiable Credentials
• DID Universal Resolver and Universal Registrar
• "Maybe ... Dividual vs Individual Identity Maybe... Identity Markets Modelling Maybe... Metrics for Human Trust Probably... Sovrin update"
• Self-issued Identifiers
• My personal URL and e-mail address
• "Claims and Credentials Affinity VC marketplace"
• Digital Identity and Key Rotation
• Use Cases for Digital Identity (The hard cases, not the easy ones)
• Be part of the discussion on Interoperability between various SSI solutions
• Design Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity
• SSI and KYC
• "The W3C Decentralized Identifiers Spec: Going Final Digging Deeper into the Trust over IP stack KERI Explained by a Mortal"
• Retrofitting OIDC to existing enterprise applications
• Birth Attestation and Guardianship
• Overlays Capture Architecture (OCA): Providing a standardised global solution for immutable data capture
• "Protecting Privacy and Identity in mobile Driving License ecosystems Various MyData and permissioned data topics"
• Identity - and Digital Transformation within large organisation
• Share our experience about launching a business about decentralized identity : which business model ?
• DIDComm Progress
• Revocations, schema hosting, credential status
• DID comm
• "- Distributed Identity for Financial Services -- especially instant onboarding, re-sellable KYC, and passwordless auth.- Distributed Identity for Government IDs -- especially PIV/CAC cards, driver's licenses and passports, public school transcripts and diplomas, and more. -Distributed Identity for Healthcare -- especially IAM and health records."
• Personal Identity Platform/IDRC
• Topics that I am planning on presenting about are related to the issues we aim to solve with humanID- this includes the need for identity to aim for accountability and one-per-human in times of automation, the tension that creates with privacy, and the need for non-profit leadership in the identity space.
• Decentralized Identity + Internet of Things
• Category Theory, Schema Migration, Categorical Databases, CQL, Distributed Virtual Machine Language Built upon Traversing a Cayley Graph (superset more capable than Gremlin from Apache TinkerPop), ... and what this might do for interoperability
• Credential issuance resulting from identity verifications
• Browsers && Federation
• IDunion, broader SSI adoption, real-world use cases in production
• IDunion, Hyperledger Aries interop, revocation handling
• OAuth, OpenID Connect
• Key Mgmt & Transitions
• Synergies between privacy-preserving machine learning and SSI
• Card based SSI credential wallet.
• Sharing health data with consent - including the use of Verifiable Credentials to share health data and authenticate individuals, the use of proof presentations to provide consent, share data and support auditing, including a demo of an application in progress.
• Personal sovereignty and human agency.
• The past, present, and future of Hyperledger Indy network monitoring tools.
• governance, oversight, delegated authority to algorithms, data for better decisions, provenance and lineage of data for transparency and accountability
• Human-centered and human-understandable interoperability labels to encourage self-sovereign human agency and reduce the asymmetry of power between people and institutions.
• SSI & IoT
• This year I'm focused more on learning than teaching.
• "Self-Sovereign and Blockchain Based Identity
• Verifiable Credentials and DIDs"
• OAuth
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Affinidi's GoodWorker use-case, our SSI journey and product learnings so far
• Supply chain identity
• decentralization
• Self Sovereign Identity
• Anything Healthcare
• DIDs
• Humanitarian uses of SSI. Guardianship. Birth and Vaccine attestation.
• Delegated identity in the context of data exchange. Complementing OAuth2/OIDC.
• SignIn.Org

What are you hoping to learn about or hear a presentation about at IIW?

• Identity ecosystem distruptors
• Influences, trajectories and details of current and near horizon technologies related to connected services and systems and how that may engage our Human Operating *System (HumanOS).
• Interoperability
• More about BBS+ signatures, others working on Aries and DIDComm, interop testing, common formats and protocols for Presentation requests and proofs.
• How to create a great customer experience to handle a digital wallet
• I hope to be able to hear about reacent technological and market advances in the SSI ecosystem. I also woud like to get in touch with the actors composing it.
• Business of SSI Use Cases Mobile solutions that do not require dedicated app installsInteroperability & Technical updatesPeer DIDs
• Other initiatives aimed at establishing identity as commons, and collective identity ('social circles') as commons
• The Trust over IP Stacks, the controversy surrounding the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group's formation, Self-Sovereign Identity, and the T3 Innovation Network's interoperable learning records (LERs).
• What advances others are making
• Identity Governance
• ID cards and biometrics. Tools for developers to create & verify credentials.
• Digital/Decentralized Identity
• Interoperability across the SSI/ VC/ SDS stack
• interop prototypes and MVPs, BBS+, real-world demonstrations of DIDs (in production)
• DID and its use
• "Decentralized Identity without a ledger SSI in IoT Trust over IP" UMA, KERI grant negotiation and Authorization
• "Identity providers Identity and DNS" SSI Sovrin Foundation
• "Verifiable Credentials in the Enterprise Microservices context VC OIDC Interoperability"
• "DID 2.0 specification Advancements in Selective DisclosureCovid Credentials"
• Cloud wallets, Key rotation, and Interoperability with Blockchains or Signature formats etc anything really
• Business models for verifiable credentials; Apple/Google wallet approaches; using Apple/Google Bluetooth privacy; strategies for non-government mass-market ID; updates on schemes in different cultures
• Low-tech, interoperable SSI for developing countries.
• "Decentralized Identity Management for Zero-Trust Architectures and SSO in enterprises Using biometry and secure hardware for binding anonymous credentials to their subject"
• The business case for self-sovereign ID
• Everything—I'm surprised every time!
• Self-certifying identifiers, platform interoperability, etc.
• Decentralized Identity progress/goals in the W3C standards process and DIF organisation. Verifiable Credentials real world use cases.

"Trust Over IP (TOIP) Identity Validation (KYC) Self Sovereign ID"

• Direction for dealing with browser privacy changes
• Decentralized key management
• I'm looking forward to learning more about KERI and discussing evolution of Sovrin in the wider SSI community
• Identity Capability Management levels
• "Interoperability@work Guardianship in SSI"
• decentralized identity
• Know more about business models and business use cases
• DID Spec Updates, Interoperability
• Interop progress
• We would love to hear discussions about which industries are best positioned to benefit from digital identity in today's volatile economy.
• I am hoping to learn about the need for identity in the low-data-need space to compete with email or Facebook.
• Updates about DID and VC specs, and DIDComm
• There are 3 credential formats that are in harmony with the VC spec, that are not mutually interoperable. Until we solve that problem, cross-ledger SSI will probably not happen."" --- What does this mean??"
• Identity Fraud; Biometrics; Identity Proofing; Identity Verification for Internet Payments
• Verifable Credentials & DIDs, Credential Ecosystems, Identity Proofing, Identity for IoT, privacy
• Digital Wallets + Governance frameworks.
• FIDO, Authentication, Web Authn, DIDs.
• Other productive SSI deployments throughout the world
• Hyperledger Aries interop, revocation handling, future of Hyperledger Indy, DID methods
• Status of emerging standards in authentication and authorization
• I need to hear more about how to approach decentralized digital identity with public sector technologists. We are building pilots and need to incorporate stronger language about promoting prevailing industry standards (VCs, etc). I also need to find resources that would help government administrators not adept in decentralized digital ID not only learn about the benefits, but also equip their staff and technology teams with the tools and resources needed to incorporate decentralized digital ID in pilot programs.
• siop, presentation exchange, interop, and anything about on-going implementations of an end-to-end issuer/holder/verifier ecosystem.
• Progress on interoperability, general update on where the space is at.
• Interoperability with DID resolving services and platforms.
• Who is doing what in the DID/VC space and what solutions are currently available.
• Self sovereign identity enabled applications
• FIDO WebAuthn working for multiple sites and for users with multiple devices.
• Topics related to humane technology, new forms of online identity, personal sovereignty and human agency.
• Identity standards and issues, data shapes
• Stay up to date with Web Service models
• News in OpenID Connect, FAPI, SSI
• lots as I always do
• Machine readable terms and conditions
• Interoperability
• Zero Trust Architectures to promote security in a more mobile and more privacy-sensitive world.
• I'd love to learn about, and meet others interested in, decentralized identity technology.
• Cryptographic Credentials
• Digital identity, self-sovereign identity
• all things SSI
• Current state of FAPI, SSI/VC/DIF
• Creative and innovative things people are doing and the positive outcomes of the pandemic
• VC Authentication mechanisms, Credentials standards, VC/VP, Credentials exchange, Revocation mechanism
• IoT, passive assets, enterprise supply chain identity relationships
• decentralization
• New trends and updates about SSI
• I want to see projects that are develped and being utilized. I want to learn about roadblocks that have been overcome and ones that still need to be overcome. I want to learn more about the PRO blockchain vs *ANTI blockchain culture in this crowd and know and understand the why's and hows of each argument. I want to hear the argumnts FOR and AGAINST Truly DECENTRALIZED and SELF SOVEREIGN solutions vs the semi-self sovereign systems that I currently see
• SSI key management and recovery, modeling trust and reputation in SSI, SSI interoperability, use cases and markets where SSI can be bootstrapped
• SSI topics
• DIDs
• Self Sovereign Identity, its applications, how companies are adopting SSI, key challenges in federated identity
• Interopability, JSONLD, Wallet Interaction Specs (UniWallet)
• Verifiable claims, decentralized identity and blockchain
• Verifiable Credentials and emerging standards as it pertains to Covid-19 related credentials.
• GDPR and policy updates. SSI dev updates. New deployments of SSI.
• Interested in gauging the community's progress on self-sovereign identity
• Data Trusts, Data Cooperatives, Data Freedom Act, Collective Data
• mydata.org operators
• user centric identity

What are the critical questions about user-centric identity and data you hope to discuss with peers at IIW?

• The art of managing intention through relationship choices with connected services and systems and how that engages our Human Operating System (HumanOS).The Trust over IP Stacks, the controversy surrounding the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group's formation, Self-Sovereign Identity, and the T3 Innovation Network's interoperable learning records (LERs).
• Interoperability
• Interop.
• How to give control to the user over government issued credentials.
• The critical subjects to me right now are the interoperability place in the ecosystem and how to build it and how to market the benefits of SSI in a closed web era.
• I am most curious if we can move beyond 'personal identity' to also think about social circles as a commons. In other words, a situation in which their is more autonomy and agency within our social circles, including policies for data sharing and privacy, and most importantly perhaps, self-governance of such social circles.
• What political and organisational methods -- cross-industrial and trans-national -- are required to establish SSI as a universal service? What are the relevant historical precedents for the adoption of a new, universal service? What are the main impediments to SSI becoming a universal service?
• How we can have existing identity systems and emerging ones work seamlessly together

"How can we realize user-centric identity without the necessary use of blockchain?

• What is the smart way of combining centralized and decentralized identities?"
• Can we & users manage distributed or evolving reputation, determined by the network and growing organically? What are today's tools that help with public & private verified credentials?
• Interoperability
• market fit, anchoring in real use cases, commitment to standards and interop vs siloing, what is hiding behind "governance"
• "What are the key threats and risks to the progress of user-centric identity? How can decentralized identity interoperate with centralized systems ?"
• account recovery
• "Verifiable Credentials in the Enterprise Microservices context VC OIDC Interoperability"
• Identity for elderly people who are not familiar with Technology and how they can be catered for in this era and be privacy concerns as well. The most users are not comfortable as of yet because of privacy concerns.
• How we can work with Big Tech to get something done.
• "How to avoid centralization and lock-ins on every level Integration of SSI with legacy systems"
• What will drive consumer adoption of self-sovereign ID?
• "How can we get real about interoperability? How can we avoid conflicts between SSI and GDPR when they are supposed to be FRIENDS?"
• Self-certifying identifiers, platform interoperability, etc.
• How the trust hierarchy for Credential Issuers is going to come about and be supported by the Aries Protocols and Sovrin or equivalent ToIP organisational structure.
• Securing PII information in OAuth/OIDC workflows and transactions
• Interoperability, management of an individual's digital life.
• Which key components are ledger-specific in light of maximum interoperability between platforms and systems
• Transparency, Sustainability and Accountability
• Decentralized governance. How far can we go ?
• Interoperability and reversibility subjects between SSI wallets
• What privacy advancements have there been
• How has COVID-19 changed the current roadmap of digital identity implementation?
• How can we make user-centric identity easier to use in the low-data need space?
• Why is this taking so long?
• Is SSI framework vulnerable to synthetic identity fraud; how to attribute trust to identity verifications; How to enable a FIDO compliant biometric authentication using SSI.
• Trust frameworks + Interoperability with other countries
• optimal user experience of SSI
• How do we move from designing for the identified individual towards the creative individual and avoid creating identity systems that constrain us?
• How to get to mainstream adoption.
• "When authentication leverages face-id / touch-id (strong, simple device-based techniques), what is a scalable solution to cope with multiple, changing devices?
• Do we have to assume each individual only has 1 primary device (1 mobile phone) at a time to prevent people sharing their credentials?"
• Is there one size fits all? What are the main blockers you see for a global adoption of digital identity?
• How do we develop new forms of expression, while protecting identity, but not encouraging destructive conversation through anonymity.
• Maintain identities across disparate applications
• How to put users in control and if "free" (of cost) solutions are the future.
• the unimagined thinking that we need to create for those making impactful decisions on semantic risk topics such as climate in a company and how we hold *humans to account for complex judgement on poor data, but in doing so create better decisions and not more blame.
• Giving agency to consumers who don't want take-it-or-leave-it terms and conditions.
• The importance of user-centric agency as an essential complement to user-centric identity.
• Where are the greatest opportunities to positively impact humanity through the adoption of DID? How might we all help the UX of DID take a giant leap forward?
• Revocation, key custody, trust
• Interoperability, production-ready frameworks, consent algorithms
• Accessibility of solutions
• How we build larger connected networks/ecosystems of trusted parties
• decentralization
• Implement a mobile wallet in React Native.
• The more "user centric" an identity is, the easier it is for that person to lose access to that identity- the less "user centric" it is the more likley a centralized entity can control the user and revoke *access/privledges therefore making it anti-user centric... how do we fix this problem?
• DIDs
• Privacy, interopability
• Privacy and regulations
• What are best practices on building cloud agents for SSI wallets; How to conform to GDPR and CCPA using Verifiable Credentials
• Privacy and access to services from limited resource areas of the globe.
• Have they considered usability issues in their proposed solutions to the self-sovereign identity problems.
• Accounting for shared data