Re: International identity data standards?

that is incredible. To avoid posting PII, I'll omit my 3 word result, but
it's pretty funny

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:01 AM Daniel Hardman <daniel.hardman@evernym.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>>>>
>>>>                 <Recurrence>Every-3-5-Years</Recurrence>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <DiscussionType>Swirling-Whirlpool-of-Doom</DiscussionType>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <Action>Avoid-Flaming-Arrows-Sit-Back-Hold-On-Enjoy-Ride</Action>
>>>>
>>>> </ StandardizingIdentityOrAccessControlAttributes >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -          Anil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anil John
>>>>
>>>> Technical Director, Silicon Valley Innovation Program
>>>>
>>>> Science and Technology Directorate
>>>>
>>>> US Department of Homeland Security
>>>>
>>>> Washington, DC, USA
>>>>
>>>> Email Response Time – 24 Hours
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [image: https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/svip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *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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>>
>>
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