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Who Gave the Agent Permission?
DIF ED @GraceRachmany joins KuppingerColeโs Road to Impact Days webinar on delegated authority, trust & accountability in agentic AI.
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Sept 29 ยท 16:00 CEST
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๐ Register now: okt.to/RwrkUh
Event: kuppingercole.com/events/nhiโฆ
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๐ฅ The latest DIF Hot Takes is out! Damian Glover & Ward Duchamps reflect on AI for Good, covering trust management for AI agents, accountability, attestation & agent interactions.
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Unlocking Self-Sovereignty at the MetaTr@versal Immersive Identity Summit.
DIF ED @GraceRachmany joins experts exploring open identity standards, authenticity & portable identity in immersive spaces.
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Sep 22 | 9am PT / 6pm CET
๐ Register: luma.com/9xhxk5v7
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DIF members Sachio, Dylan, and Rosalyn are hosting Agentic Identity, Explained, with sessions on agentic identity happening throughout this week.
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September 21-25, 2026
๐ 9am PT ยท 12pm ET ยท 5pm London
๐ฅ Recordings available
Register here: vouched.id/agentic-identity-โฆ
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CAWG caught unexpected interest from the MCP community: C2PA/CAWG was pitched for provenance of unsigned, unattributed AI agent โskill files,โ requiring no changes to MCP itself.
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Agentic AI work moves forward at DIF: the Delegated Authority report now connects the problem space, solution evaluation, governance & threat modeling, while KYA-OS explores MCP extensions, registries & directories.
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DIDComm is staying at DIF, with the WG turning its attention toward DIDComm 3.0 rather than pursuing an IETF RFC.
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In the DID Methods Working Group, did:hedera and did:soul are in the Recommended DID Methods review period with did:julia showing promise as a potential candidate.
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Whereโs Your Network State Passport? Why donโt alternative communities have one? Web3 talks about sovereignty and privacy.
At Berlin Ethereum Day, DIF's @GraceRachmany explores interoperability, KYC reliance & privacy-preserving identity.
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The agentic identity conversation continues Oct. 6 in Munich. DIF ED @GraceRachmany will speak on Who Approved That? The One Question Your Agent Logs Cannot Answer [Advanced].
๐ AIdentity & Non-Human Identity Impact Day 2026: kuppingercole.com/sessions/7โฆ
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DIF TAAWG member Rosalyn Curato of @VouchedID joins Forcepointโs podcast, Autonomous Agents Need a Verified Identity, to discuss agent identity, delegated permissions & KYA-OS.
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DIF Technical Lead & TAAWG Co-Chair @by_caballero will be at AGNTCon + MCPCon Europe, where the agentic AI ecosystem comes together around MCP, interoperability & agent systems.
๐ RAI Amsterdam ยท Sept. 17โ18
๐ events.linuxfoundation.org/aโฆ
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๐ฅ The latest DIF Hot Takes is out.
George Fletcher reflects on IETF 126, covering AIโs impact on standards, delegated authorization, agent interoperability & the challenges of moving authorization across trust boundaries.
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Join Damian Glover & Ward Duchamps as they share their reflections on the AI for Good Global Summit 2026 in Geneva and what stood out from the event.
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Sep 14, 2026 ยท Monday
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Check out the DIF Calendar bit.ly/dif-group-cal or become a DIF member to attend live.
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In a new DIF guest post, Alan Karp argues that restricting delegation can encourage credential sharing, proxy workarounds, and weaker security.
Read the full blog: blog.identity.foundation/bloโฆ
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And another one! ๐ did:ethr is now a DIF Recommended DID method.
Any Ethereum address becomes a valid DID โ no registration required.
Congrats to Mircea Nistor for sponsoring the method.
Come join the conversation: identity.foundation/working-โฆ
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did:cid is now a DIF Recommended DID method ๐
Built on the Archon protocol by Archetech โ instant, zero-cost DID creation via IPFS with flexible finality options. Fully W3C compliant and production-ready.
Follow the work:
๐ archetech.com
๐ identity.foundation/working-โฆ
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Digital identity systems also need to account for what happens when identity is compromised.
DIF Steering Committee member Steve McCown speaks at Identity Week America in Identity Security: What Happens When Digital Identity Is Compromised?
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DIFโs Dmitri Zagidulin joins an Identity Week America panel on decentralized identity integration, covering frameworks & standards, benefits, โno phone homeโ lessons and challenges associated with decentralized identity programs.
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Drummond Reed joins GDC for ๐๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ป๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป-๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ: ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐น, ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฏ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป on Sep 3 in Geneva.
๐ globaldigitalcollaboration.oโฆ
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