Accelerating mDL Adoption in the United States
Published September 19, 2024
The OpenID Foundation is delighted to announce that it is one of 15 parties to a Collaborative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cybersecurity Council Center of Excellence. This project will accelerate digital identity adoption in the United States. Its first use case supports financial institutions to meet their Know-Your-Customer requirements using Mobile Drivers License (mDL) technologies and standards.
The OpenID Foundation and its members are passionate about the role that standards play in catalyzing ecosystems. We are grateful to NIST for the opportunity to engage in this project and for its continuing contributions to industry standards, including their active participation in OpenID Foundation Work Groups.
In this case, we are excited to test the OpenID for Verifiable Credentials family of specifications, especially OpenID for Verifiable Presentations, to support financial use cases. This effort directly complements our work with the California DMV, which employs two upcoming Hackathons to test a variety of public and private sector mDL use cases.
We are looking forward to further collaboration with the other 14 parties, among whom are many valued members of OIDF, including Idemia, Spruce ID, Mattr, the California DMV, and Sustaining Board Members Microsoft and Block/TBD.
We encourage members of the Financial Services community who are interested in this work to complete this survey, powered by our friends at the Secure Technology Alliance, which aims to understand FinServ awareness and attitudes towards Mobile Drivers Licenses.
About the OpenID Foundation
The OpenID Foundation (OIDF) is a global open standards body committed to helping people assert their identity wherever they choose. Founded in 2007, we are a community of technical experts leading the creation of open identity standards that are secure, interoperable, and privacy preserving. The Foundation’s OpenID Connect standard is now used by billions of people across millions of applications. In the last five years, the Financial Grade API has become the standard of choice for Open Banking and Open Data implementations, allowing people to access and share data across entities. Today, the OpenID Foundation’s standards are the connective tissue to enable people to assert their identity and access their data at scale, the scale of the internet, enabling “networks of networks” to interoperate globally. Individuals, companies, governments and non-profits are encouraged to join or participate.
Find out more at openid.net.
