Identity Woman

Independent Advocate for the Rights and Dignity of our Digital Selves

Archives for February 2021

My Articles On DIF

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In 2020 I had a contract along with Juan Caballero to do communications at DIF for a few months. We got the youtube channel going with content from the F2F event and published several articles.

I coauthored this one with Margo Johnson about the glossary process we went through to define Wallet, Agent and Credential.

Finding the Bell Curve of Meaning: A process for supporting the emergence of shared language in broad collaborative communities

I wrote these three articles myself:

DIF at #IIW31 – self explanatory about the Internet Identity Workshop

Where to begin with OIDC and SIOP: and how today’s most powerful authentication mechanisms can be decentralized

Understanding DIDComm: A cross-community effort to standardize on common, DID-anchored capabilities

Here are the ones both Juan and I collaborated on:

Those of you who know me – know I really care a lot about the difference between Open Source and Open Standards. So we drilled down on this topic with these two posts.

Drilling down: Open Standards: What standards are and what it means to make them openly

Drilling down: Open Source: A crash-course in the complex world of variously-open software licensing

DIFS updated code of conduct. Its great…for Setting a tone for inclusive collaboration.

https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/difs-updated-code-of-conduct-a0c2d9dce1ad?source=friends_link&sk=bf2b78af3085bcba0ce8b92d71cd916f

Two Exciting New Roles

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I should have written this post at the beginning of the year…but the year is still young.

I have two new part time roles that I’m really excited about.

I am the Ecosystems Director at the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative. I am working with a fantastic team helping lead/organize this community. Lucy Yang is the Community Director and John Walker is the Community Architect.

I am the Chair of the Verifiable Credentials Policy Committee which is under the Blockchain Advocacy Coalition lead by Ally Medina.

I continue my community leadership work co-chairing the Interoperability Working Group at DIF and the Secure Data Store working group at DIF/CCG.

I am publishing a weekly newsletter/summary of SSI news that covers the Identosphere. This is in partnership with Infominer. You can subscribe here and support us on Patreon here (yes two different places) .

I do an (almost) weekly podcast with Seth Goldstein called Privacy Surveillance and Anonymity Today.

I have a new page up with Media Coverage if you want to check it out.

Yes I do do consulting. If you have a question you need answered about this emerging industry. I can help you figure it out.