On Monday, December 14th the 18th Vienna Digital Identity Meetup* was held with a presentation from Jason Burnett, Director of Products from Digital Trust. Digital Trust is working on the new GADI specification and is a central member of The DID Alliance.

The DID Alliance digital identity infrastructure leverages existing FIDO Alliance infrastructure and processes combined with elements of decentralized technologies (DLTs and DIDs). The GADI architecture is a federated identity ecosystem where Digital Address Platforms (DAPs). The DAPs are run by known trusted identity providers and perform the Trust Anchors role, and issue Digital Addresses to individuals. The ecosystem uses a permissioned DLT model with only known trusted entities can perform the role of Trust Anchor.

The Digital Address is used as unique individual identifier that is controlled by the GADI ecosystem. This is the fundamental difference in identity philosophy between GADI and SSI based systems. The Digital Address is a lifetime connected identifier and under the control of the DAP. The version 1.0 of the GADI specification is currently underway with a release expected in Q1 of 2021.

The DID Alliance was founded in late 2018 with a strong representation of members in South Korea and CVS/Aetna in the United States. Digital Trust is the technology partner of The DID Alliance that is designing and implementing the GADI specification and reference architecture.

For a recording of the event please check out the link: https://vimeo.com/491079655

Time markers:

• 0:00:00 - Introduction

• 0:04:17 - Jason Burnett - Digital Trust

• 0:06:38 - The DID Alliance Core Principles

• 0:18:57 - DAP Ecosystem

• 0:22:53 - Components of GADI Digital Identity

• 0:34:35 - Questions

• 0:50:00 - Demo

• 1:02:00 - Questions

• 1:11:18 - Wrap-up

For more information on:

• The DID Alliance: https://www.didalliance.org/

And as a reminder, we continue to have online only events. Hopefully we will be back to in person and online in the New Year!

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*Vienna Digital Identity Meetup is hosted by The Dingle Group and is focused on educating business, societal, legal and technologists on the new opportunities that arise with a high assurance digital identity created by the reduction risk and strengthened provenance. We meet on the 4th Monday of every month, in person (when permitted) in Vienna and online on Zoom. Connecting and educating across borders and oceans.