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Trust Over IP Members to Participate in Bhutan Innovation Forum
By Eric Drury If you’re in the digital trust space, like me you might be encouraged by the number and variety of inspiring developments—appearing on an almost weekly basis—which illustrate…
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ToIP Welcomes GLEIF to our Steering Committee
GLEIF is pleased to have broadened its engagement and participation in Trust Over IP Foundation (ToIP) by becoming a member of the ToIP Steering Committee in March 2024, recognizing the…
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ToIP at EIC and Beyond: A Summer of Not-to-Be Missed Sessions
See all the conference sessions and talks in which ToIP members or our partners will be participating.
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ToIP Announces the First Implementers Draft of the Trust Spanning Protocol Specification
Read about a protocol that is to digital trust what the Internet Protocol (IP) is to digital data.
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ToIP Announces the Implementers Draft of the Trust Registry Query Protocol Specification V2.0
Creating a simple and consistent way to programmatically get answers from authoritative ecosystem sources.
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ToIP Announces New Issuer Governance Requirements Guide for Verifiable Credentials – Public Comment Needed
Comment on our first effort to define standard requirements for issuers of verifiable credentials.
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Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) Task Force Announces Public Review
A blueprint for creating truly decentralized, authentic, and verifiable ecosystems of identifiers, “credentials”, and attestations
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Announcing Public Review of the did:webs Method Specification
Announcing a public review of did:webs, and the motivations for this new method.
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Where’s the user manual?
Let's shape the friendly future of digital wallets together! Join in by sharing your thoughts in the survey.
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Simplifying the Selection Process for Credential Issuance and Presentation Protocols
Making it easier for individuals to choose the right option based on their specific context and requirements.
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A Major Step Towards Interoperable Identity Assurance
A joint blog post with the OpenID Foundation, addressing a key piece of the interoperability puzzle.
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Mid-Year Progress Report on the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol
Summarizing the seven pillars of the design of the trust spanning protocol.
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What is the business value of harms countermeasures in digital identity systems?
Businesses can derive significant commercial benefits by mitigating the potential harms in digital identity ecosystems.
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ToIP at Open Source Summit North America 2023 – Recap
Trends and highlights from the summit that has over 300 speakers and 15 micro-conferences.
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ToIP Takeaways from the European Identity Conference and Identiverse
Key observations and takeaways from two of the largest digital identity conferences.
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Internet Identity Workshop 36 in Review
In this guest blog post, Mathieu Glaude takes us through the conference topics that interested him the most.
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Volunteers Needed – ToIP Announces new Issuer Governance Requirements Task Force
We need your voice! Help us broaden our perspectives and solidify our expected deliverables.
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Decentralized SSI Governance
Practical steps for better business decisions using decentralized identity SSI infrastructure
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How Do Humans Trust?
Human trust principles create the fabric in which we make decisions to trust something or someone. Scott Perry explores these in more detail in this guest blog post.
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Announcing Interaction Patterns Task Force
Best practices for enabling consistent, accessible and trustworthy data exchange experiences for all
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ToIP Joins the Open Wallet Foundation as an Associate Member
Since the missions of ToIP and OpenWallet Foundation (OWF) are so complementary, the ToIP Foundation is joining the OWF as an Associate Member.
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A Conversation with Judith Fleenor, the ToIP Foundation’s New Executive Director
Judith Fleenor, ToIP's new Executive Director, talks to John Jordan about her top three priorities for 2023 in her new role, her reaction to her appointment, and more.
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Why the digital identity juggernaut needs safety belts
How a new ToIP white paper provides a systemic view of how human harms function in digital identity ecosystems – and how to mitigate them
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The ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol
A deeper dive to explain the special role of the ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol, and why it is the keystone to achieving large-scale interoperability.
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What — Exactly — Is a Digital Trust Ecosystem?
Drawing on the characteristics of natural ecosystems and human economies to propose a concrete definition.
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Announcing the First Public Review Draft of the ToIP Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification
Representing over a thousand collective hours of work, it specifies the architectural requirements for the ToIP Technology Stack.
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Avast Joins the ToIP Foundation as a Steering Member
Avast (LON:AVST), a company best known for its antivirus and other cybersecurity products for consumers, has joined the Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation as a Steering Member. Avast recently acquired…
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ToIP Steering Committee Member, the Government of British Columbia, Improves Sustainability Reporting with Digital Trust Technology
While many self-sovereign identity solutions offer tools for individuals, a government team from Canada is using digital trust technology to improve sustainability reporting in the natural resource sector for organizations. …
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ToIP Steering Committee Members to speak at two conferences in Dublin, Ireland September 12th-16th
Join us for an exciting week of engagement with leaders in the area of digital-trust transformation.
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Announcing Artificial Intelligence & Metaverse Technology Task Force
The ToIP Foundation is forming a new task force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Metaverse (AIM for short), under its Technology Stack working group.
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Identity Week 2022 Recap
The Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation was invited to join a panel discussion on the topic of Smart Digital ID Wallets and the Future of Identity.
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Identiverse 2022: The Time for Decentralized Identity is NOW
Two weeks ago was the first full-scale Identiverse since the pandemic began, and host Ping Identity pulled out all the stops. It started off with a wonderful video splash with…
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Monokee Joins ToIP as a Steering Member
We are pleased to announce that Monokee s.r.l., a scaleup from north Italy, has joined the ToIP Foundation as a Steering Member. A company rising from the centralized and federated…
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Achieving trusted digital transactions across the globe: OIX and ToIP align to make it happen
Two of the most influential global membership organisations in the digital ID space have aligned to forge a faster and more secure route to a shared and trusted digital future.…
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Key ToIP Takeaways from the European Identity Conference
EIC 2022, held May 10-13 at the the Berlin Conference Center, had a strong ToIP presence, including Director of Strategic Engagements Judith Fleenor and Steering Committee members André Kudra (esatus),…
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Decentralized Identity: Keys to mainstream adoption
by Mike Vesey, CEO, IdRamp, and Karl Kneis, COO, IdRamp Understanding the decentralized identity (DCI) market can be challenging. Inspiring C-level decision makers and IT executives to adopt decentralized identity…
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Schellman Joins Trust Over IP Foundation as Steering Committee Member
Tampa-based Schellman, a leading provider of attestation and compliance services, announced today that it is joining the Trust over IP Foundation (ToIP) as a Steering Committee member. As the first…
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No need for superhumans!
Ethics can be baked into the design process simply by calling on the human in all of us.
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Layer 1 Utilities: An underground network connecting all SSI ecosystems
We want to develop a cohesive map and topology of all Layer 1 Utilities, and what route is best to take for each destination.
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Radio With Pictures
Exploring why human trust should be an essential design element in the next generation of digital solutions.
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“No, I don’t trust you” – Implementing Zero-Trust Architecture in the world of Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI)
We examine the efforts of the US federal government to adopt zero trust architecture (ZTA), and its implications for using decentralized identity.
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The IRS and ID.me: Privacy Optional
A news item caught the attention of the ToIP Foundation in the past week where there was a lot of controversy.
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The Verifiable LEI: Delivering on the Promise of the ToIP Stack
Stephan Wolf, CEO, GLEIF, reviews the progress made by GLEIF and ToIP on the road to creating a new digitally verifiable form of global organizational identity: the vLEI.
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The ToIP Foundation Releases its First Official Governance Specifications
These are tools that CIOs, CISOs, Chief Privacy Officers, trust architects, and other policymakers can begin using immediately to construct governance frameworks.
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The Trust Over IP Foundation Publishes New Introduction and Design Principles
When it was launched in May 2020, the ToIP Foundation summarized its mission in a single 20-page white paper called “Introduction to Trust Over IP”. This paper was based on…
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Data Governance Act meets ToIP framework
by Jan Lindquist, Neil Thomson, Burak Serdar, Paul Knowles, Christoph Fabianek, Phil Wolff Introduction Europe’s Data Governance Act (DGA) reached a milestone. The European Parliament announced it “…reached a provisional agreement on…
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🎄 ToIP Helps Santa with His Toughest Choices
The Trust over IP (ToIP) Foundation announced a critical governing framework (PDF) to assist Santa in making his toughest choices during Christmas Eve. For generations, Santa used many information sources,…
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Discussion Papers: Capturing New Ideas and Solving Tough Problems
Discussion Papers provide a quick way to write up a radical or unexpected idea to solve a problem in a way that fosters discussion and collaboration.
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Let’s Go – Together!
Our societies and economies are not made of independent adults alone, and yet it's all too often an implicit assumption in digital interactions.
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On Forests, Emergence, and Expansive Trust
Perhaps our perfectly reasonable focus on the details of credential implementation is distracting us from a profound generalization that our name, “Trust Over IP,” has suggested all along.
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Key Takeaways From The Linux Foundation Member Summit
What has been happening while we’ve been holed up at home? In this year’s LFMS, two themes stood out.
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ToIP Releases Additional Tools for Governance and Trust Assurance in Digital Trust Ecosystems
Following the September announcement of its first tools for managing risk in digital trust ecosystems, today the ToIP Foundation announced three more pairs of tools to assist in the task of…
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A DIF & ToIP joint Statement of Support for the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 specification becoming a W3C Standard
This statement was co-written by DIF and ToIP. On 3rd August 2021, the World Wide Web Consortium proposed advancing the Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 specification to their W3C Recommendation stage,…
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Engaging with the Ontario Digital Identity Program
We recently had the honor to host a presentation from our Canadian counterparts in Ontario about their technology roadmap for their Digital Identity (ID) program. The aim of their program is…
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A Year in Review: New Beginnings and Successes
The Internet is one of the most extraordinary developments in human history. It is connecting the world farther, faster, and deeper than any previous communications network. It is steadily digitizing…
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Trust over IP Foundation Issues Its First Tools for Managing Risk in Digital Trust Ecosystems
The growing interest in verifiable digital credentials, such as mobile driver's licenses or digital health passes, means companies and governments need new tools for managing risk in this decentralized infrastructure.…
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Release of the Good Health Pass (GHP) Interoperability Blueprint
The Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation together with the Good Health Pass Collaborative (GHPC) today announced the release of the Good Health Pass (GHP) Interoperability Blueprint V1.0.0 (PDF). Produced by over 125 participating companies and…
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Good Health Pass Collaborative Releases Draft Blueprint for Digital Health Passes in Advance of G7 Summit
In an effort to restore global travel and restart the global economy, the Good Health Pass Collaborative today announced the release of the eagerly-anticipated Good Health Pass Interoperability Blueprint. The…
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Trust over IP and Sovrin sign agreement to strengthen collaboration
The Sovrin Foundation (“Sovrin”) Board of Trustees and Trust over IP Foundation (“ToIP”) Steering Committee are pleased to announce that they have signed a Letter Agreement (dated March 18, 2021).…
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ToIP Foundation Hosts the Interoperability Working Group for Good Health Pass
Digital health passes — often mischaracterized as “vaccine passports” in the popular press — are making headlines as a key component in the drive to restore global travel and restart…
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ANNOUNCEMENT – Webinar: Trust over IP and Government (Dec 15, 2020)
The Trust over IP Foundation will host a live, interactive webinar event on December 15, 2020. Titled “Trust over IP and Government,” this event will feature a panel of industry…
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