Patchwork: Syncing on AI Standards/Speaker Form/Drummond Reed

Drummond Reed

Headshot
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Bio
Drummond has spent over three decades in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is currently lead organizer for the First Person Project. From 2021 to 2025, he was Director of Trust Services at Gen (formerly Avast) after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Officer. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. He currently serves as Governance Lead for the Ayra Association. He is founding board member of the OpenWallet Foundation and Trust Over IP (ToIP), where he serves as co-chair of the Technology Stack Working Group, the Concepts and Terminology Working Group, and the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group. In 2002 he received the Digital Identity Pioneer Award from Digital ID World, and in 2013 he was cited as an OASIS Distinguished Contributor.
For those giving lightening talks, are you able to share your slides in a ‘Google Slides link’ to add to our Master Google Slides deck?
For those giving lightening talks, are you able to share your slides in a ‘Google Slides link’ to add to our Master Google Slides deck?
-Optional Questions if you’re representing a Standards Body - 1 Paragraph description of your protocol/standard?
The ToIP / DIF Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group is developing standards for personhood credentials (PHCs), verifiable relationship credentials (VRCs), r-cards, and associated ToIP trust task protocols that run over DIDComm and/or the trust spanning protocol (TSP).
Are there any other specs or efforts or additional info you'd like to share?
ToIP Trust Spanning Protocol (TSP): https://trustoverip.github.io/tswg-tsp-specification, ToIP Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP): https://trustoverip.github.io/tswg-trust-registry-protocol/
Bio (Short)
Current needs for your protocol/standard?
Active participation in the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group
Email contact for people interested in your protocol/standard (this will be shared publicly on the notion page)
drummond.reed@firstperson.network
Link for participants to learn more about the protocol/standard:
LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/in/drummondreed
Organization
First Person Cooperative
Protocol / Standard
Trust Over IP (ToIP)
Where is the protocol/standard being housed? (1)
Linux Foundation
Decentralized Trust Linux Foundation
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@drummondreed.bsky.social
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