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• Project updates – what’s happening in:

  • ACA-Py

    • Release 1.2.0 to be released (likely) today. This will be the new LTS.

    • An ACA-Py plugin for Cheqd is now available with DID and AnonCreds support

    • Next up is a refactoring of DID Management, and a plugin for did:webvh (and perhaps did:web)

  • Credo-TS

    • Annual report submitted, accepted by TAC

    • Working on 0.6

  • Bifold

  • OWL

  • Others…

• Discussion: Digital Trust in 2025 – goals and expectations

  • Join us ready to discuss what you want to see happen in 2025.

  • Trend to more cloud-based wallet storage

    1. People are using multiple wallets on a device because they’re in different ecosystems, need to synchronize - how to manage the synchronization. Resistance to the idea of an individual wallet that plugs into different ecosystems

    2. Interop perspective - this is an important issue

    3. Backup, recovery, transitioning between devices is something we haven’t gotten to yet

       1. Considerations around moving private keys securely - in the cloud? copy between devices?

    4. UK - Holder services

    5. Google (likely Apple, too) has accepted that individuals will use multiple wallets on a device at a time, includes mechanisms for invoking the different wallets to see if they can successfully fulfill the request

       1. Currently can use different wallets in parallel with Google and Apple, different backends - this is in production

       2. Future WISIG topic: how does the wallet interop in that environment

    6. OpenID Foundation will lead this group - how does the device find out which wallet can fulfill the request; wallets must be portable and able to be synchronized, across different devices and manufacturers

    7. Digital lifespan

  • Independent testing and certification - this is fundamental to interoperability

    • Documention, suite of test scripts to support testing

  • Trend: shift away from decentralization towards federation

    • Less of a focus on blockchain and decentralization, public image of blockchain

    • Back to more “traditional” views of decentralization

    • Federation - OpenID Federation spec

      • https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html

      • https://www.authlete.com/developers/oidcfed/

      • https://github.com/TimoGlastra/project-proposals/blob/f3d4f2d10dd1cad95494a502aa473cf89e617ec8/projects/openid-federation-ts.md

  • did:webvh

    • Just released 0.5 version of the spec

    • Working on deployment to a did:webvh server

    • Plugins to ACA-Py to give controller the ability to use did:webvh

    • In line with the trend away from decentralization, towards traditional web-based systems

  • Expanding use cases in BCGov

    • Lawyer credential, person credential

  • Verifying the verifier

    • EU requirement that every verifier must register as a verifier

    • Protection for users, but roadblock for use of verified data overall

    • https://edugain.org/

  • OWL Akrida

    • Adding support for new protocols - currently DIDComm, JSON-LD issuance/verification, adding OID4VC

  • Trend: use of VCs in supply chain, moving away from triangle of issuer-holder and verifier-holder interactions being separate

    • Issuers publish, users/anyone retrieve the information

    • UN Transparency Protocol: https://uncefact.github.io/spec-untp/

    • Digital Product Passports use this model

  • Presentations and interoperability

    • Verifiers are the driver of the ecosystem, how to remove roadblocks

    • Wallets and Agents SIG

• Open Discussions

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