Specifications
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Ratified by the working group
Ratified after public review. The texts will be published on this page.
Presentation-time record signed with COSE_Sign1, deterministic CBOR, bound to the presented credential’s native trust anchors.
Resolution layer over externally operated trust sources. Verifiability contract over a storage-agnostic backend.
Ecosystem-issued credentials consumed on their own trust paths under published rules; NFID-aligned credentials for what governments do not issue.
Deterministic encoding, bounded sizes, restricted tag set, hardened parser subset.
In development
Not ratified.
How a verifier requests, and a wallet provides, a stronger interaction within the same trust framework.
Honoring consent, including withdrawal, across high-frequency repeat presentations without breaking operational tempo.
Reference implementation and conformance
Open-source verifier library
In active development; public repository when released
Canonical reference implementation: envelope verification, CBOR profile decoding, registry client.
Conformance and certification
Requirements exist in each ratified specification; testing tooling in development; certification function committed, operating model to be published
Voluntary, non-mandatory evaluation against published criteria.