Re: International identity data standards?

This is not an international standard, but I couldn't resist mentioning it
since the subject of long, unstructured addresses in India and China came
up. Have a look at https://what3words.com -- a 3 word address for every
3-meter square on the earth's surface. In places where the existing postal
service works well, this isn't that compelling--but in a wilderness with no
roads, or in a crowded ghetto somewhere, with inconsistent street
addresses, this is a remarkable way to tell an ambulance how to find you.
There's a TED talk about it.

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:16 PM Moses Ma <moses.ma@futurelabconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> 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.
>
> I'll be able to talk more about all of this shortly, which will likely
> have a significant impact on the DID initiative. There are a lot of moving
> parts.
>
> Anyway, I can talk some about this effort off the record during the Prague
> workshop.
>
> Moses
>
>
> On 8/26/19 11:56 PM, MXS Insights wrote:
>
> If it is specifically mailing address standards, I have contacts at Pitney
> Bowes (having worked there for 20+ years).  They have been doing global
> mailing address hygiene for 40+ years.
>
> I am happy to reach out to find someone to connect here if there is a
> point of contact I can connect them to.
>
> Michael Shea.
>
> On Aug 27, 2019, at 7:10 AM, Ian Smith <ian@vidicode.pro> wrote:
>
> I don't think ldap proposed or Canadian standards are at all appropriate
> for international addresses. Alibaba's enlightened but not progressive
> approach was to allow several thousand characters and no formatting
> restrictions to allow people to write their address. A typical mailing
> address in India and China is around 30 to 100 words.
>
> The ISO has a series of standards on how the various character sets can be
> transcribed to printable characters.
>
> Google is probably the forerunner in displaying addresses, but they do
> things that are hard for the rest of us to mimic. A few minutes looking at
> Google maps in Africa and Bangladesh should be fairly impressive.
>
> Is there additional progress supporting unicode-16 in ldap standards?
>
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 10:53 PM =Drummond Reed <drummond.reed@evernym.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Love it, Anil. Sounds like a job for...Verifiable Credentials!
>>
>> =Drummond
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 9:38 AM John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:
>>
>>> *Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;   *: -)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <StandardizingIdentityOrAccessControlAttributes>
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>>> </ StandardizingIdentityOrAccessControlAttributes >
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -          Anil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Anil John
>>>
>>> Technical Director, Silicon Valley Innovation Program
>>>
>>> Science and Technology Directorate
>>>
>>> US Department of Homeland Security
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>>>
>>> *From:* Liam McCarty <liam@unumid.org>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, August 23, 2019 3:26 PM
>>> *To:* public-vc-comments@w3.org; public-credentials@w3.org
>>> *Subject:* International identity data standards?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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