Know-2018: Decentralized Identity Standards Panel
Centralized cloud identity has peaked. Distributed ledgers, decentralized identifiers, and verifiable claims have made sovereign identity possible. The benefits to people are overwhelming, especially with regard to privacy, control of data, and fraud reduction. Three standard technologies in particular stand out as enablers of this new digital identity infrastructure: (1) OpenID Connect, an OAuth based federated identity layer; (2) Sovrin, an advanced distributed ledger technology; (3) FIDO, a standards-based cryptographic authentication protocol. This session will provide an overview of each of these technologies as well as references to open source software that can be deployed today to put it to work. |
Logistics
| Title | Decentralized Identity Standards |
| Time | Wednesday, March 28th, at 13:30 |
| Format | Moderator leading a 50 minute panel discussion |
| Moderator | Michael Schwartz |
| Panelists | Paul Grassi , George Fletcher, Rajiv Dholakia |
Vocabulary
| Standard | Work Group | Very Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| DID | W3C | |
| DID Auth | ||
| DKMS | ||
| FIDO | FIDO Alliance | |
| OpenID Connect | OpenID Foundation | |
| OAuth | IETF | |
| UMA | Kantara | |
| Verifiable Claims | W3C | |
| W3C Web Authentication | W3C |
Questions for panelists
- "How would the OAuth protocol work with a self-sovereign identity agent?"
- "How would the OpenID Connect protocol work with a self-sovereign identity agent?"
- "How would the FIDO protocol work with a self-sovereign identity agent?"
- "How will the emergence and adoption of SSI affect the identity landscape? What will be different?"