This SIG is focused on conversations related to the architecture of digital wallet engines.
+This SIG was accepted by the TAC on April 5, 2023.
+This SIG is an open group. Anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community can join and participate. There is no formal sign up process. Just show up and participate.
+The architecture SIG meets weekly on Mondays at 11:00 AM US/Pacific time. For details, see architecture SIG meeting details. For past notes and recordings, see the architecture SIG wiki.
+Please join the OpenWallet Foundation Discord and participate in the discussion in the #architecture-sig channel.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +This SIG is dedicated to maintaining information about available credential formats for the benefit of OWF projects and the wider community. The topic is more complex than one might assume on first sight, since there are more than 14 formats for representing digital credentials and most of those formats can be combined with different signature algorithms, ways to represent cryptographic keys (with alone more than a hundred DID methods), status management methods, trust management methods and so on.
+There is pre-existing work started at Internet Identity Workshop (IIW 34, Spring 2022) and extended and augmented during Rebooting the Web of Trust (RWOT-XI, The Hague, Sept 2022).
+It consists of a “credential format comparison matrix”, containing information about the technical options in the different dimensions (formats, signature algorithms, …) as well as known credential profiles, i.e. concrete combinations used in implementations and an article explaining the “matrix”.
+This SIG was accepted by the TAC on May 31, 2023. See Credential Format Comparison SIG Proposal for more details.
+This SIG is an open group. Anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community can join and participate. There is no formal sign up process. Just show up and participate.
+If you are interested in participating, please join the OpenWallet Foundation Discord and participate in the discussion in the #credential-format-comparison-sig channel.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +The objectives of this SIG is to further develop and maintain the Digital Wallet Overview and making a similar overview for digital identity agents/SDKs. These overviews should provide transparency of the characteristics of wallets and agents in order to allow for comparison and effective decision making on which wallet is applicable for your use case. By creating awareness of these overviews, this work can lead to less fragmentation of the SSI playing field and increase adoption.
+This SIG was accepted by the TAC on September 20, 2023. See Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG Proposal for more details.
+This SIG is an open group. Anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community can join and participate. There is no formal sign up process. Just show up and participate.
+If you are interested in participating, please join the OpenWallet Foundation Discord and participate in the discussion in the #digital-wallet-and-agent-overviews-sig channel.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +A special interest group (SIG) under the Technical Advisory Council (TAC) is a group with a shared interest in advancing a specific area of knowledge, learning, or technology related to the mission of the OpenWallet Foundation where members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within their particular field. Unlike a task force, SIGs are typically long running and may or may not produce any deliverables. A SIG can be created by anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community and must be proposed to and approved by the TAC.
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+If you would like to propose a Special Interest Group, please see the SIG proposal process.
+This SIG will create, distribute and promote a set of material that will become the de-facto way to determine how "safe" the new breed of digital wallets is, and be able to compare them effectively. This will increase the visibility of the solutions to correlation and profiling issues that could be introduced with digital wallet deployments.
+This SIG was accepted by the TAC on September 20, 2023. See Safe Wallet SIG Proposal for more details.
+This SIG is an open group. Anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community can join and participate. There is no formal sign up process. Just show up and participate.
+If you are interested in participating, please join the OpenWallet Foundation Discord and participate in the discussion in the #safe-wallet-sig channel.
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + +The Special Interest Groups (SIGs) must provide a quarterly update to the TAC to ensure that the SIG is still active and that there is still value in hosting the special interest group. The following calendar provides the timing for when these updates are required to be presented to the TAC:
+| Quarter | +Special Interest Group | +TAC Meeting | +
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | +Architecture SIG | +2024-01-10 | +
| Q1 | +Credential Format Comparison SIG | +2024-02-07 | +
| Q1 | +Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG | +2024-02-21 | +
| Q1 | +Safe Wallet SIG | +2024-03-06 | +
| Q2 | +Architecture SIG | +2024-04-03 | +
| Q2 | +Credential Format Comparison SIG | +2024-05-01 | +
| Q2 | +Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG7 | +2024-05-29 | +
| Q2 | +Safe Wallet SIG | +2024-06-12 | +
| Q3 | +Architecture SIG | +2024-07-10 | +
| Q3 | +Credential Format Comparison SIG | +2024-07-24 | +
| Q3 | +Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG | +2024-08-07 | +
| Q3 | +Safe Wallet SIG | +2024-08-21 | +
| Q4 | +Architecture SIG | +2024-10-02 | +
| Q4 | +Credential Format Comparison SIG | +2024-10-16 | +
| Q4 | +Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG | +2024-10-30 | +
| Q4 | +Safe Wallet SIG | +2024-11-13 | +