Verifiable Claims

Working Group Proposal

W3C TPAC 2016 Face-to-Face - Web Payments Interest Group

Manu Sporny - Verifiable Claims Task Force

Goals for this Session

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• Status Update on Verifiable Claims

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• Demonstrate current support for Working Group

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• First face-to-face meeting at Internet Identity Workshop 2016

Organizations participating in the surveys/task force

ETS

NACS

IMS Global

Blockstream

Rabobank

Enterprise Estonia

New Zealand Government

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Pearson

Bloomberg

RIAA

ID2020 (United Nations)

Verisys

Badge Alliance

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Note: This is a subset.

These are selected organizations that have been public about their participation (from ~85 total that have participated)

Problem and Mission

• Problem: Currently difficult to transmit banking account information, proof of age, education qualifications, healthcare data, digital offers, and other sorts of verified personal information via the Web.

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• Mission: Make expressing, exchanging, and verifying claims easier and more secure on the Web.

52 Organizations Agree With Problem and Mission Goals

Verifiable Claims Charter Scope

This is what we are standardizing

49 Organizations Agree with Charter Scope / Deliverables

Verifiable Claims Architecture

Issuer

Issue Claims

Inspector

Request Claims

Holder

Acquire, Store, Present Claims

Identifier Registry

Maintain Identifiers

Issue Claims

Register Identifier

Present Claims

Verify

Identifier

Ownership

Verify

Identifier

Ownership

Use Cases and Specification

• Use Cases
• Gap Analysis
• Verifiable Claims Data Model and Representations
• Other Supporting Documentation

Verifiable Claims Timeline

Work starts in

Web Payments CG

Credentials CG formed

Verifiable Claims

Task Force formed

Broad industry interest /

use cases survey

Verifiable Claims WG

proposal survey

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Expert interviews / due diligence

We are here

First Face-to-Face at IIW 23

Current Concerns

• Re-using Previous Work Efforts
• Compelling Business Models and Deployment Economics
• Ensuring a Larger Vision is Effectively Communicated
• Scalability of Trust Model with Thousands of Issuers and Consumers
• Business Model for Basic Ecosystem Infrastructure
• Slow Evolution of Agent-Centric Designs
• Long-Lived Identifiers, Key Management, and Revocation of Credentials
• Protection Against Fraud and Abuse

Demonstration of Traction

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• 2014 - 11 organizations support initiative
• 2015 - 24 organizations support initiative
• 2016 - 49 organizations support initiative
• 15 commitments to build verifiable claims products
• 27 commitments to deploy verifiable claims products
• Face-to-face meeting at Internet Identity Workshop #23

Changes Since July Face-to-Face

• Modified Proposed Charter:
• Change feedback from Microsoft, Google, and W3M
• Note that problem statement is aspirational
• Narrow scope to education and payments
• Narrow scope to only work on use cases
• Explicitly mention that infrastructure is out of scope
• Remove mentions of “transmit” and “exchange”

Next Steps

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• Ongoing charter discussion with W3M, Microsoft, & Google
• Face-to-face meeting at Internet Identity Workshop #23
• October 27th-28th, open to attendees
• Maximize collaboration with industry experts
• Work is moving ahead in forums other than W3C
• Rebooting Web of Trust, Future of Identity, IIW, etc.

Questions / Concerns

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• Questions?
• Concerns?
• How do we get engagement from W3M on finalizing the charter?