Industry Organisations
Trust over IP (ToIP)
The Trust Over IP (ToIP) Foundation was launched in May 2020 with 27 original founding member organizations. It was gestated over the previous year as a confluence of multiple efforts in the digital identity, verifiable credential, blockchain technology, and secure communications spaces by people who saw the need to converge and create an interoperable architecture for decentralized digital trust. This culminated in a Linux Foundation paper called The ToIP Stack published in August 2019 and subsequently turned into a December 2019 article in a special edition of IEEE Communications Standards Magazine on decentralized digital identity.
It also doubled from four to eight Working Groups, with over a dozen deliverables slated for release by the end of 2021. This surge of interest in decentralized digital trust infrastructure showed no signs of abating, particularly after the June 2021 announcement of the EU Digital Identity Wallet initiative and Apple and Google’s announcements about beginning to accept digitally-signed credentials in their proprietary digital wallets.
In September of 2024, now with over 500 organizational and individual members, the Trust Over IP Foundation moved into the newly formed Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust (LFDT) umbrella, as the first Joint Development Foundation standards project to join LFDT.
Decentralised Identity Foundation (DIF)
DIF - DIF is an engineering-driven organization focused on developing the foundational elements necessary to establish an open ecosystem for decentralized identity and ensure interop between all participants.
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