Proposed Group: Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group
The Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group has been proposed by Amir Hameed Mir:
The mission of this group is to explore, develop, and promote Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA)—a framework that treats decentralized identifiers (DIDs) as first-class network primitives. UDNA enables identity-native communication, privacy-preserving routing, and secure self-sovereign interactions across decentralized systems. Through UDNA, this group aims to unlock secure, decentralized, and privacy-preserving communications at scale, laying the foundation for the next generation of Internet-native identities.
Scope:
- Defining UDNA specifications for DID-based network addressing.
- Developing protocols for secure, verifiable, and rotatable identity resolution.
- Exploring integration with existing Internet protocols and decentralized networks.
- Enabling zero-trust and capability-based access control models.
- Investigating privacy-preserving communication and anti-abuse mechanisms.
- Providing reference implementations and interoperability guidance.
Expected Outcomes:
- A set of specifications and guidelines for UDNA adoption.Reference architectures and implementation examples.
- Recommendations for integrating identity-native addressing into decentralized applications and protocols.
- A community of researchers, developers, and organizations collaborating on identity-native networking technologies.
You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.
Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.
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Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team