Technical Advisory Council Meeting

February 21, 2024

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TAC Voting Members

Agenda

1. Announcements
2. Review action items from last meeting
3. Digital Wallets and Agents Overviews SIG Update
4. Bifold Project Proposal
5. Project Promotion Process
6. Open discussion and next steps

Announcements

• Architecture SIG meets weekly on Mondays at 11am US/Pacific (next call February 26)
• OID4VC Due Diligence task force meets bi-weekly on Tuesdays at 5pm CET (next call February 27)
• Safe Wallet SIG meets weekly on Tuesdays at 7am US/Pacific (next call February 27)
• Credential Format Comparison SIG meets bi-weekly on Wednesdays at 4pm CET on alternate weeks to the TAC (next call February 28)
• Digital Wallets and Agents Overviews SIG meets biweekly on Thursdays at 5:00pm CET on the same weeks as the TAC (next meeting February 22)
• Please submit any code proposals using the process defined at https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/project-proposals. We will review proposals in the order submitted at a TAC meeting. If you know of any potential projects that might be of interest to the OpenWallet Foundation, please let a staff member know so that they can follow up

Action Items from Last Meeting

• Sean to work with Mirko on a blog post on the Credential Format Comparison SIG – in progress

Digital Wallets and Agents SIG�TAC Update

Q1 2024

What is the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG?

A group that is focused on keeping an overview of digital wallets and agents, and their characteristics.

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What is the objective of the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG?

Anyone willing to use digital wallets or agents for digital credential purposes should be able to objectively compare the characteristics of wallets/agents and create a shortlist of candidates for their use case.

What has the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG accomplished so far?

• Began with discussions on the scope, goal and target audience of the overview
• Based on that, we removed/added some wallets and agents
• Removed and added characteristics
• We started out with two overviews, we’re finishing up merging them
• Format for contribution by wallet/agent vendor

Characteristics included

Technology stack

• Role capabilities
• Scope
• Deployment
• Organisational / personal
• Open source
• Credential profile
• Communication protocols
• Ledger usage

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User friendliness

• Offline
• Connection
• Key history
• Portability

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Privacy

• Selective disclosure
• Predicate
• Unlinkability
• Observability

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Security

• Crypto agility
• Quantum-safety
• Key rotation

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Interoperability

• DIIP
• ISO 18013
• AIP
• EBSI

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What is the connection between Digital Wallets and Agents SIG and other OWF groups?

Connection with credential format comparison SIG through Mirko Mollik

• Content will be linked in the overviews

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Connection to Safe Wallet SIG through David Alexander

• Safe Wallet SIG will produce extra characteristics to incorporate in wallet and agent overview

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What is next for the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG?

• Becoming more complete through reaching out to wallet/agent vendors
• Increasing usability through adding filters
• Validation of practical applicability by reaching out to our target audience
• Adding rows for interoperability profiles
• Maintaining a close connection with other OWF groups
• Provide a better set-up on the GitHub, with meeting minutes / recordings

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Where can I get information on the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG?

GitHub

https://github.com/openwallet-foundation/digital-wallet-and-agent-overviews-sig

Overview

https://openwallet-foundation.github.io/digital-wallet-and-agent-overviews-sig/

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How do I participate in the Digital Wallets and Agents SIG?

Discord Channel

#digital-wallet-and-agent-overviews-sig on the OpenWallet Foundation Discord server

Meetings

Bi-weekly on Thursdays at 16:00 PM CET time

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Bifold Project Proposal

RESOLVED: That the Bifold project proposal is hereby confirmed, approved, and adopted as a growth project.

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Project Promotion Process

• Our current project lifecycle does not clearly outline the steps necessary for projects to progress in the lifecycle.
• Suggested changes to the lifecycle to create a PR to update the original project proposal to include the new stage and other information relevant to meet the proposed stage’s criteria.
• Upside: This process is similar to the original project proposal process.
• Possible Downside: This will overwrite the original proposal but might not be a concern given the history in GitHub on the file.

Open Discussion and Next Steps

• Next TAC Meeting March 6, 2024
• Safe Wallet SIG Update