OpenID Foundation

The OpenID Foundation is hiring a Technical Director. This leadership role will drive the OpenID Foundation’s partner and ecosystem relationships, represent the Foundation at industry and government events, and provide strategic leadership for the Conformance Program. The role will report directly to Executive Director Gail Hodges. Full-time preferred (20 hrs/week minimum considered). Remote, with periodic travel to support meetings and conferences. More information can found here: https://lnkd.in/eyA6Nh43 If you are interested then please send your CV to director@oidf.org #OpenID #DigitalIdentity #Hiring #OpenStandards

The OpenID Foundation's Australian Digital Trust Community Group has submitted recommendations to Australia's statutory review of the Digital ID Act 2024. There were three core asks: design for economy wide outcomes, prioritize credential issuance and reduce acceptance barriers. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/erTE_9th John Scullen Victoria Richardson Dave Hyland Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯Olaf G. #DigitalIdentity #VerifiableCredentials #Australia #OpenID #PolicyEngagement

Digital identity verification should carry the same weight as paper. Our Australian Digital Trust Community Group has just submitted to ARNECC's Model Participation Rules consultation, arguing that the eConveyancing rules should recognize digital driver licenses, verifiable credentials, and standards aligned verification, not just cybersecurity. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e7SzzhmP Victoria Richardson Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯David Hyman Olaf G. John Scullen #digitalIdentity #eConveyancing #DigitalTrust #OpenID #Australia 

The Australian Government's recent consultation on verifiable credentials policy raises some key questions. Our response is to prioritise interoperability from day one. Read what the OpenID Foundation's Australian Digital Trust Community Group is recommending: https://lnkd.in/eeYfkNyM John Scullen Victoria Richardson Dave Hyland Olaf G. Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯 #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalIdentity #Interoperability #OpenIDFoundation

📣 Call for Proposals: OpenID Well-Known Conference 2027 What can others learn from your story? The OpenID Foundation is inviting proposals for its inaugural OpenID Well-Known Conference, taking place in London, 2–4 February 2027. We want to hear from ecosystem leaders with practical experiences, lessons learned and insights that can help others advance, adopt and scale. 🌍 What has helped – or hindered – adoption? 📈 What does it really take to scale an ecosystem? 🔗 How have standards and interoperability helped you progress? 🪪 How do you build an ecosystem that works not only for issuers, but for relying parties and credential holders too? 💡 What could other ecosystems or jurisdictions learn from your experience? OpenID Foundation Working Groups are also encouraged to propose WG meetings, demonstrations, interoperability events, hackathons and other collaborative activities that can help progress the standards ecosystems depend upon to scale. Have a story, challenge or idea that others could benefit from? We want to hear from you. 👉 Read more and submit your proposal: https://lnkd.in/e75piyQ8 #OpenID #DigitalIdentity #IdentityStandards #Ecosystems #Interoperability #DigitalCredentials #CallForProposals #OIDF2027

Jill E Duffy at WIRED explores why digital estate planning is messier than most people think. Her article breaks down what works, what doesn’t, and why platforms need better standards. Mike Kiser, co-chair of the Death in the Digital Estate Community Group at OpenID Foundation, tells WIRED what needs to change and how DADE is working to solve the challenges that currently exist. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eYB27tDi #DigitalIdentity #DigitalEstate #DADE Eve Maler Dean H. Saxe Heather Flanagan

🎉 BELIEVE THE HAIP Today, we've reached a major milestone for digital identity ecosystems. The OpenID Foundation is pleased to announce that the conformance test suites for both the OpenID for Verifiable Presentations (OpenID4VP) and OpenID for Verifiable Credential Issuance (OpenID4VCI) protocols used with the High Assurance Interoperability Profile (HAIP) are now complete and open for self-certification. https://lnkd.in/gMhnTDWt Wallet providers, issuers, verifiers, government agencies, and vendors can now run the test suites -- and we are inviting them to go one step further and be among the first to self-certify to much fanfare from us. This is a moment to offer a huge congratulations to the OpenID Foundation's incredible #Certification team, including Joseph Heenan, Thomas Darimont, Domingos Creado, Marcus Almgren, Edmund Jay, Alan Smillie, the #DCP Working Group led by Dima Postnikov 🆔 💯Kristina Yasuda Brent Zundel, and other Foundation leadership Gail Hodges, Mike Leszcz Jr., Elizabeth Garber #DigitalIdentity #IdentityEcosystems

New from the OpenID Foundation's AuthZEN Working Group: two draft specifications for standardizing authorization decisions across any API, protocol, or AI agent workflow. COAZ (pronounced "cozy") maps any system's inputs into an AuthZEN authorization request. COAZ-MCP applies that framework to the Model Context Protocol, helping close the 'confused deputy' gap as AI agents act on users' behalf. Read the full post from co-chairs Atul Tulshibagwale and Alex Olivier: https://lnkd.in/e8Cd5iKv Feedback welcome via GitHub issues, or join the AuthZEN Working Group to help shape the specifications. Atul Tulshibagwale Alex Olivier #IAM #Authorization #AI #MCP #OpenIDFoundation

There are many amazing people in the OpenID community who worked with Vittorio or build on his legacy. So many would benefit from the Vittorio Bertocci award -- please pass this on to those people before the July 31 deadline!

🌍 Introducing the Global Digital Trust Awards 2026 Today we are excited to announce the launch of the inaugural Global Digital Trust Awards. The Global Digital Trust Awards are a community-led initiative, launched together with DIACC (Canada), DIDAS - Digital Identity & Data Sovereignty Association 🇨🇭 (Switzerland), IT Security Association Germany (TeleTrusT), APDI Consortium (Asia) and the APKIC - Asia PKI Consortium, and coordinated by FIDES Labs. The Global Digital Trust Awards aim to discover, share and recognize outstanding real-world implementations of digital wallets, verifiable credentials and digital trust solutions from around the world. Real progress in digital trust is ultimately demonstrated through successful real-world implementations that create value for people, organizations and society. Starting today, organizations, projects and ecosystems from around the world can submit their real-world use case implementations across four award categories. Participation is free of charge, and organizations do not need to attend GDC in Geneva to participate. 🏆 Collaboration Award 🌍 Social Impact Award 📈 Adoption Award 👛 Best Wallet Award The winners will be awarded at the Global Digital Collaboration event in Geneva on 3 September 2026. Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing regular updates as we announce the expert jury, reveal the finalists and count down to the inaugural Global Digital Trust Awards at GDC in Geneva Learn more, submit your use case and stay up to date: https://lnkd.in/eZWA3Tkw #GlobalDigitalTrustAwards #DigitalTrust #DigitalIdentity #DigitalWallets #VerifiableCredentials #Interoperability #GDC #GlobalDigitalCollaboration