Re: International identity data standards?

Hi Liam, et al,

FYI, my company is working with the UPU, a UN agency that handles 
inter-postal operator collaborations, and they have expressed interest 
in DIDs and VCs. I can't say more until all the approvals are in place 
(compliance for intergovernmental agencies is quite complex), but there 
are international postal addressing standards in place, such as the S42 
standard <http://www.upu.int/en/activities/addressing/s42-standard.html> 
for physical addressing. There is also work ongoing - like the UPU's S68 
and DeutschePost's POSTIDENT standards - that propose international 
standards for identity and trust data.

This will likely have some impact on the DID initiative, and I'll be 
able to talk more about all of this shortly. There are a lot of moving 
parts. Anyway, I can talk some about this effort off the record during 
the Prague workshop.

Moses



On 8/23/19 12:26 PM, Liam McCarty wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there work being done to create international standards for 
> identity data? For example, it would clearly be valuable to have 
> standards for common data points like name, address, phone number, 
> etc. If not that, it'd be helpful to at least have standardized 
> mappings between different regional formats.
>
> I've done some preliminary research and discovered groups like the 
> NIEM (National Information Exchange Model, which is U.S.-based) and 
> UPU (Universal Postal Union), but not anything more comprehensive. If 
> international standards already exist, could someone point me in 
> the right direction?
>
> If not, creating international identity data standards seems like a 
> natural extension of the work on DIDs and VCs. Would love to help 
> kickstart that if people would find it useful.
>
> *Liam McCarty*
> Co-Founder of ePluribus <https://epluribus.io>, Unum ID 
> <https://unumid.org>


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