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The High Assurance VID Task Force (HAVTF) is a task force of the ToIP Technology Stack Working Group, which will explore . Its mission is to create a specification and implementation guidance for how to bridge different:
“Verifiable Identifier (VID) Flavours”: including —including Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), X.509 certificates and the Domain Name System (DNS) records) with records—using mechanisms that provide both high cryptographic assurance and strong semantic linkage; and,
“Trust Realms”: including (aka trust domains), to show how contrasting approaches to VID-based trust architecture can share common “Roots” of trust roots to establish interoperability.
A “bridged approach” to VIDs will lay the foundation for High Assurance (HA) Trust over IP (ToIP) VID Profiles that remain agnostic to the underlying VID. This approach allows decision-makers to choose the most suitable VID for specific contexts and purposes without foregoing interoperability between VID systems. Through By designing a framework that supports and acknowledges theunique benefits of each “VID flavour”VID flavour, different flavours can co-exist rather than compete, resulting . This should result in a more robust, scalable, flexible and high assurance architecture for the implementation of ToIP digital trust ecosystems.
For a complete overview of the development process for the ToIP technology stack, see Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
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The deliverable of this Task Force is the High Assurance VID Specification, intended to create common patterns for establishing trust between different “VID Flavours”VID flavours. Accordingly, a VID must meet the requirements of a Verifiable Identifier (VID) as specified in the ToIP Technology Architecture V1.0 Specification and the draft ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol Specification. The requirements in this specification must interoperate with other ToIP component specifications as explained in the Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
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Please add your name to this list if you wish to be a lead/ co-lead chair of this task force:
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Meeting Notes, including Zoom recordings, are kept for every meeting — see the HAVTF Meeting Pages for an index.
Meetings agendas are also announced on the ToIP Slack channel #HAVID. Please join us there.
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