POSE: Phase II: Credentialing for Open Source Ecosystems (COSE): Ensuring Testable Interoperability

POSE：第二阶段：开源生态系统 (COSE) 认证：确保可测试的互操作性

• 批准号: 2303615
• 负责人: Manu Sporny
• 金额: $ 49.97万
• 依托单位: DIGITAL BAZAAR, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2303615&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: POSE; Phase; II; Credentialing; Open

People present credentials such as driver’s licenses, permanent resident cards, or degrees during important events in their lives. However, since the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for establishing touchless, trustworthy interactions has increased. The pandemic amplified the need to improve society's ability to engage in the same sort of trustworthy interactions we are used to in person, online. The US Federal Government has been funding digital credentialing initiatives in this space through the US Department of Homeland Security's Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) and similar initiatives undertaken by the US Department of Education. While web standards create the possibility of interoperability, they do not ensure demonstrable interoperability. This NSF project is being funded to ensure that the verifiable credentialing ecosystem has the underlying open source infrastructure to facilitate the broader interoperability effort. These efforts enable secure and reliable open technologies to gain adoption in the market over proprietary or closed solutions, lowering the cost of acquisition of these technologies to US Federal Government and society at large. This NSF project builds on ongoing work through the World Wide Web Consortium (such as the Verifiable Credentials, Decentralized Identifiers, Digital Wallet, and Credential Request/Response protocols). The focus is on upgrading a strategically planned set of open-source test libraries, test suites, and an organized interoperability dashboard as foundational infrastructure for decision makers and developers when adopting standards-based digital credentialing approaches. This infrastructure is bolstered by an open compliance program through the Linux Foundation which will both continuously test the open source implementations and generate revenue for continued operation of the open source ecosystem. These efforts will help foster an open-market of digital credentialing software that provides the average citizen with secure, reliable access to their digital credentials. The US Federal Government will benefit from a broader set of vendors in the market and by being able to more accurately determine the level of standards conformance supported by each vendor, which will help combat vendor-lock in, price gouging, and false advertising in the digital credentialing space.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在生活中重要事件中，人们提供的证书，例如驾驶执照，永久居民卡或学位。然而，由于与19日大流行以来，建立无触摸，值得信赖的相互作用的需求已经增加。大流行的是，需要提高社会参与我们习惯于在线的同样值得信赖的互动的能力的必要性。美国联邦政府一直通过美国国土安全部的硅谷创新计划（SVIP）和美国教育部采取的类似举措在该领域为数字证书计划提供资金。尽管Web标准创造了互操作性的可能性，但它们不能确保可证明的互操作性。该NSF项目的资金是为了确保可验证的凭证生态系统具有基本的开源基础架构，以促进更广泛的互操作性工作。这些努力使安全可靠的开放技术能够通过专有或封闭的解决方案在市场上采用，从而降低了这些技术向美国联邦政府和整个社会收购的成本。该NSF项目是基于通过万维网联盟进行的（例如可验证的凭证，分散的标识符，数字钱包和凭据请求/响应协议）的工作。重点是升级一组战略性计划的开源测试库，测试套件和有组织的互操作性仪表板作为决策者和开发人员在采用基于标准的数字凭证方法时，作为基础基础架构。通过Linux Foundation的开放合规计划来支持该基础架构，该计划将不断测试开源实现，并为开源生态系统的继续运行而产生收入。这些努力将有助于培养数字凭证软件的开放市场，从而为普通公民提供安全，可靠的数字凭据访问。美国联邦政府将受益于市场上的更广泛的供应商，并能够更准确地确定每个供应商支持的标准水平，这将有助于打击数字证书领域中的供应商洛克，价格欺诈和虚假广告。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务和范围的范围。