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Together we're building a new identity ecosystem

   Join us in developing the foundational components of an open,
   standards-based, decentralized identity ecosystem for people,
   organizations, apps, and devices.
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Our Focus

   DIF is an engineering-driven organization focused on developing the
   foundational elements necessary to establish an open ecosystem for
   decentralized identity and ensure interop between all participants.

Technical Specifications

   Groups in DIF develop specifications and emerging standards for
   protocols, components, and data formats that implementers can execute
   against.

Reference Implementations

   Beyond specifications, DIF members develop open source reference
   implementations of the technical components and protocols they create.

Industry Coordination

   As the leading industry organization in the Decentralized Identity
   space, DIF seeks to align industry participants to advance their common
   interests.

Working Groups

   As an engineering-driven development-focused organization, our Working
   Groups are at the core of everything we do. Our Working Groups are
   scoped by functional areas, and are designed to drive emerging standard
   specifications backed up by open source code.

Identifiers and Discovery

   A key piece of the decentralized identity equation is how people,
   organizations, and devices can be identified and located without
   centralized systems of identifiers (e.g. email addresses). DIF members
   are actively working on protocols and implementations that enable
   creation, resolution, and discovery of decentralized identifiers and
   names across decentralized systems, like blockchains and distributed
   ledgers.
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Storage and Compute

   Secure, encrypted, privacy-preserving storage and computation of data
   is a critical component of decentralized identity systems. As with
   identifiers and names must be self-sovereign to the owning entity, a
   user's identity data must remain private, only accessible to the
   entities they allow. DIF members are actively developing specs and
   reference implementations for provider-agnostic, run-anywhere solutions
   that provides these features.
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Authentication

   Designing and implementing DID-based authentication specs, standards,
   and libraries used in authenticating DIDs across a wide variety of
   exchanges and use cases.
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Claims and Credentials

   The ability to verify the claims and assertions of identities is key in
   establishing trust among entities on a decentralized system that lacks
   a centralized hierarchy. DIF has recently begun work on defining the
   specs, protocols, and tools it can provide to the ecosystem to help
   ecosystem participants and their customers easily integrate DID-signed
   claims into their apps and services.
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Members

   DIF represents a diverse, international collection of organizations and
   contributors working together to establish an open ecosystem of
   decentralized identity that is accessible to all.
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   [learning-machine.png] [hyperledger.png] [tierion.png] [civic.png]
   [bc.png] [accenture.png] [danube.png] [rsa.png] [evernym.png]
   [mooti.png] [aetna.png] [r3.png] [authenteq.png] [bcf.png]
   [validatedid.png] [equinix.png] [taqanu.png] [kyc.png] [blockpass.png]
   [nuid.png] [metax.png] [gs1.png] [diid.png] [nuggets.png]
   [trustedkey.png] [zinc.png] [ont.png] [mastercard.png] [link-e.png]
   [id2020.jpg] [veridium.png] [meeco.png] [pillar.png]
   [humanized-internet.png] [jolocom.png] [tai.png] [onfido.png]
   [auth0.png] [1kosmos.png] [gamecredits.png] [secure-key.png]
   [wymsical.png] [lifeid.png] [centinal.png] [identos.png] [diwala.png]
   [juru.png] [botlabs.png] [eea.png] [remme.png] [transmute.svg]
   [finema.png] [gataca.png] [webank.png] [cambridge-blockchain.png]
   [unify.jpg] [truu.png] [bytom.png] [nec.png] [metadium.png]
   [workday.png] [drep.png] [elastos.png] [arcblock.png] [zerna.png]
   [neo.png] [mattr.png] [iohk.png] [idworks.png] [bloom.png]
   [keyless.svg] [cartan.png] [0kims.png] [raon.png] [nextid.png]
   [Polymath.png] [condatis.png] [spherity.png] [culedger.png]
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News & Insights

   News about our work and insights from our members on their efforts to
   build the decentralized identity ecosystem.

Get In Touch

   If you're an organization interested in developing industry standards
   and open source technical components with us, or a member of the press
   looking for more information on our efforts, drop us a line below.
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Structure & Licensing

   DIF is a registered 501(c)(6) membership organization. All code is
   licensed under Apache 2, W3C terms govern IPR, and content is available
   via Creative Commons 4 Attribution.

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