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    • Jerome Pons

    Proposal(s) title:
    • Designing a Taxonomy of Decentralised Identifier / Identity Terms for ISO/TC307
    Proposal(s) topic:

    Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies

    Impact on SMEs:

    Impact on SMEs (7th Open Call)
    As European SMEs are subject to stronger regulation (e.g. eIDAS, GDPR, Copyright), harmonising terminologies, taxonomies and architectures in worldwide standards is key to avoid their fragmentation between international (e.g. ISO, W3C), European (e.g. CEN-CENELEC) and national standards (e.g. UNE, AFNOR).
    Harmonising decentralised identifier and identity terminologies and taxonomies is key at ISO/TC307 and CEN-CENELEC/JTC19 before they are derived in European regulation (initially eIDAS2) and infrastructures (e.g. EBSI).
    All European SMEs will take advantage of such harmonisation.


    Value of Research

    The objective of this contribution was to design a taxonomy of decentralised identifier and identity terms for further integration into ISO/TC307 works developed by AHG5 and JWG4.
    My fellowship was key to address the gap between worldwide blockchain and DLT standards in the fields of identifier and identity management, especially between ISO/TC307, ITU-T and W3C while including some European-led reference documents (i.e. EBSI, eSSIF-Lab and INATBA glossaries).
    The main challenge was reaching consensus between ISO/TC307 working groups (especially AHG5 and JWG4) to support the revision of ISO/TS 23258:2021 in order to integrate a taxonomy of decentralised identifier and identity terms.

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    Full Name: Jerome Pons
    Title & Organisation Name: Blockchain Standardisation Manager, Music won t stop
    Country: France
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