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Beyond Credentials is available
The NFID Foundation Working Group’s strategic positioning paper, Beyond Credentials: A Trust Framework for Identity-Based Physical Access, published 31 October 2026, is available here. It sets out the architectural move from deployment-side credential issuance to trust-framework verification at the access boundary, describes the four contributions the working group has ratified, and explains the operational properties and standards alignment of the framework.
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