Episode 080: 01‐22‐2025 Introducing Ayra - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: Introducing Ayra
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Drummond Reed, Director, Trust Services at Gen Digital
Description
The Ayra Association is a new Swiss nonprofit association that will serve as the governing body for the Ayra Trust Network, which is a "trust network of trust networks". The first trust networks are seeking to exchange and verify digital credentials. other "trust clusters" are forming in financial services, workforce credentials, supply chain, personhood credentials, and organizational ID. Join us for a discussion on this new network and how you can maybe even trust cluster your federation!
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Takeaways
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⚡ To unlock most of the value of the new verifiable credential infrastructure, RP's must trust them. Ayra lowers the transaction costs for RP's to trust these new credentials by providing a way to understand their provenance and risk.
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⚡ "Trust Clusters" are a group of organizations who want to connect with each other to exchange and verify digital credentials. The initial trust clusters Ayra is working to faciliate include financial service, workforce credentials, AI agents, supply chain, organization id, and personhood credentials.
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⚡ One area Ayra could be useful is to enable re-use of verifiable credentials in the EU Wallet ecosystem. For example, can the Swiss government trust a French credential issued to authorize a person to drive a truck?
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⚡ You could think of Ayra as a clearinghouse for artifacts minted by the issuers of various federations. While issuers in a federation make the final call on when to issue a credential, the federation vets the issuers, defines how issuers disclose their security policies and practices, and may also define common schema and values. These processes would put the federation in a good place to join Ayra to enhace re-use of the credentials of their partipant issuers.