Drummond Reed
- Co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification
- Co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework working group
- Steering committee member at the Trust over IP Foundation
- Co-author of Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning)
Bio
Drummond Reed co-edited the W3C Decentralized Identifiers 1.0 specification, co-chaired the Sovrin Governance Framework working group for five years, and sits on the steering committee of the Trust over IP Foundation. He was Chief Trust Officer at Evernym, now part of Gen Digital, and co-authored the Manning book on self-sovereign identity.
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Where their work shows up
Most of the hard part of decentralized identity is not cryptography, it is governance: who is allowed to issue what, who decides to trust an issuer, and how that decision is written down so a verifier in another country can act on it. His work spans both halves, the DID specification and the trust frameworks that make it usable. See what is self-sovereign identity and the decentralized identity vendors.
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