- From: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 15:21:49 -0400
- To: Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Hi all, As many of you are already aware, the US Department of Homeland Security United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS/USCIS) has been operating a program through the DHS Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) to create a digital version of the Permanent Resident Card (aka Green Card) based off of the W3C Verifiable Credentials global standard. https://www.dhs.gov/science-and-technology/news/2018/12/04/news-release-st-seeks-collaborative-blockchain-innovations As a part of this work, companies that were involved in the work coordinated to build a Verifiable Credentials extension that was capable of addressing the use cases contemplated by DHS/USCIS. The result of that collaboration is here: https://digitalbazaar.github.io/citizenship-vocab/ The Citizenship data model was then put through a series of interoperability tests earlier this year to ensure that it led to technical interoperability that was provably testable: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2020Jun/0100.html Based on the success of those initial interoperability tests, the Editors of the specification (from Digital Bazaar and Secure Key) would like to request that it is added as an official W3C CCG Work Item. I have opened the request here: https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/155 -- manu -- Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/ Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. blog: Veres One Decentralized Identifier Blockchain Launches https://tinyurl.com/veres-one-launches
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