Electronic Driving Licenses

• From: David Chadwick <D.W.Chadwick@kent.ac.uk>
• Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:58:32 +0100
• To: Verifiable Claims Working Group <public-vc-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <e4419559-6ee1-3e91-2740-6ab808003600@kent.ac.uk>

Hi All

I spoke with the UK Driving License Authority today and it appears that
an ISO standard for electronic driving licenses is nearly completed. It is

ISO 18013 part 5

It is out for ballot at the moment I believe.

Even though I am a member of BSI I cannot get a copy without being a
member of the working group (which I am not). But I understand that the
draft standard does not mention W3C Verifiable Credentials nor propose
to use our technology for electronic driving licenses. This would be a
huge missed opportunity if governments all around the world (including
the US, as I understand Virginia has piloted a system already) start to
issue electronic driving licenses that are not VC compatible.

Is anyone in our group a member of an ISO member body and could either
get a look at the standard, or even better, suggest that W3C VCs are one
of the mechanisms to be used for publishing electronic driving licenses
to users

Kind regards

David

Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2019 16:58:56 UTC