{"id":3,"date":"2025-09-01T15:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/2025\/09\/01\/call-for-participation-in-universal-did-native-addressing-udna-community-group\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:12:29","slug":"call-for-participation-in-universal-did-native-addressing-udna-community-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/2025\/09\/01\/call-for-participation-in-universal-did-native-addressing-udna-community-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participation in Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/\">Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA) Community Group<\/a> has been launched:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>The mission of this group is to explore,  develop, and promote Universal DID-Native Addressing (UDNA)\u2014a 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.<\/p>\n\n<p>Scope:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Defining UDNA specifications for DID-based network addressing.<\/li>\n<li>Developing protocols for secure, verifiable, and rotatable identity resolution.<\/li>\n<li>Exploring integration with existing Internet protocols and decentralized networks.<\/li>\n<li>Enabling zero-trust and capability-based access control models.<\/li>\n<li>Investigating privacy-preserving communication and anti-abuse mechanisms.<\/li>\n<li>Providing reference implementations and interoperability guidance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Expected Outcomes:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>A set of specifications and guidelines for UDNA adoption.Reference architectures and implementation examples.\n<\/li><li>Recommendations for integrating identity-native addressing into decentralized applications and protocols.<\/li>\n<li>A community of researchers, developers, and organizations collaborating on identity-native networking technologies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to <a href=\"\/community\/did-native-addr\/join\">join the group<\/a>, you will need\n    a <a href=\"\/account\/request\/\">W3C account<\/a>. Please note, however, that <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#is-w3c-membership-required-to-participate-in-a-community-or-business-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">W3C\n        Membership<\/a> is not required to join a Community Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2025-09-01 by\n    Amir Hameed Mir. The following people supported its creation: Victor Lu, Amir Hameed Mir, Muezza Wani, Zaid bin Sultan Tramboo and Faizan Bashir.\n    W3C&#8217;s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group must now <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-choose-a-chair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">choose a chair<\/a>. Read more about <a href=\"\/community\/about\/faq\/#how-do-we-get-started-in-a-new-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">how to get started in a new group<\/a> and\n    <a href=\"\/community\/about\/good-practice-for-running-a-group\/\">good practice for running a group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We invite you to share news of this new group on social media and other channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please email us\n    at <a href=\"mailto:site-comments@w3.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">site-comments@w3.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you,<br \/>\nW3C Community Development Team<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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)\u2014a framework that treats decentralized identifiers (DIDs) as first-class network primitives. UDNA enables identity-native communication, privacy-preserving &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/2025\/09\/01\/call-for-participation-in-universal-did-native-addressing-udna-community-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/did-native-addr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}