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Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group

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.
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Call for Participation in Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group

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The Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group has been launched:

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.

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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2025-09-01 by Amir Hameed Mir. The following people supported its creation: Victor Lu, Amir Hameed Mir, Muezza Wani, Zaid bin Sultan Tramboo and Faizan Bashir. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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