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Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) provides a new paradigm in trust and identity on how users can engage with, and have control over their own personal data. It may also provide new models for institutions and services to engage with users in the context of issuing and receiving (researcher) identity and in dealing with guest or external identities. This will have an impact on how research communities and their services can handle authentication and authorization.

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• The Group will hold periodic meetings for about 3-4 weeks for about 2.5 hours, between September and November 2022.:
  
• The Group will establish topics and contents to be discussed.
  
• The process is intended to be flexible and exploratory.
• It is expected not only technical topics will be discussed, but also privacy, assurance and trust.
• The Incubator members serve and facilitate the process, including note-taking and writing out the proceedings.
• Proceedings will be made available to the Group for feedback and review before being finalized.

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• The Group will have online meetings from September to November 2022.
  Week 48 is a wrapup/spill-over meeting
• Meetings take 2.5 hours with 15 min lead times and 15 min breaks between 1-hour discussion slots
• Using a doodle poll, participants will be invited to select either of the following slots will be selected by Group members (Incubator team member availability is restricting the use of other slots):
  • Wed morning 10.00-12.30
  • Mon afternoon, 13.30-16.00
  • Fri morning, 10.00-12.30

Meeting Agenda and Proceedings

• Week of Sep 5
• Week of Sep 26
  
• Week of Oct 17
  
• Week of Nov 7
  
• Week of Nov 28
  

High-level Background information

• 9 September 2022, 10:00 AM CEST - Introduction and Overview
• 30 September 2022, 10:00 AM CEST - Use Cases, Establishment and Governance 
• 21 October  2022, 11:00 AM CEST - Integration Patterns
  
• 4 November  2022, 11:00 AM CET
  
• 18 November  2022, 11:00 AM CET
  

High-level Background information

Introduction:

• BCG and walt.id,  “Me, myself and (SS)I - Why everybody must have a Self-Sovereign Identity in 5 years”, 2021
• Annett Laube, Gerhard Hassenstein, “Self-Sovereign Identities: Will the identities of Swiss university members be controlled by themselves in future?”, Bern University of Applied Sciences, 2020

AARC:AARC

• AARC blueprint Architecture
• Security Incident Response Trust Framework for Federated Identity 

• Research and Scholarship Entity Category

SSI-related:

• Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs)

• Verifiable Credentials Data Model (W3C)
• Self-Sovereign Identities (SWITCH)
• Using Distributed Identity for Managing Researcher Access