Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group launched

With your support, the Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group has been launched:
  https://www.w3.org/community/did-native-addr/

This group was originally proposed on 2025-09-01 by Amir Hameed Mir.
The following people supported its creation:
  Victor Lu
  Amir Hameed Mir
  Muezza Wani
  Zaid bin Sultan Tramboo
  Faizan Bashir

To join the group, please use:
  https://www.w3.org/community/did-native-addr/join

Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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The mission of this group is to explore, develop, and promote Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA)—a framework that treats decentralized identifiers (DIDs) as first-class network primitives. UDNA enables identity-native communication, privacy-preserving routing, and secure self-sovereign interactions across decentralized systems. Through UDNA, this group aims to unlock secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving communications at scale, laying the foundation for the next generation of Internet-native identities.

Scope:

- Defining UDNA specifications for DID-based network addressing.
- Developing protocols for secure, verifiable, and rotatable identity resolution.
- Exploring integration with existing Internet protocols and decentralized networks.
- Enabling zero-trust and capability-based access control models.
- Investigating privacy-preserving communication and anti-abuse mechanisms.
- Providing reference implementations and interoperability guidance.
 
Expected Outcomes:

- A set of specifications and guidelines for UDNA adoption.
Reference architectures and implementation examples. - Recommendations for integrating identity-native addressing into decentralized applications and protocols.
- A community of researchers, developers, and organizations collaborating on identity-native networking technologies.
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team

Received on Monday, 1 September 2025 15:34:59 UTC