2025‐06‐25 Minutes - openid/death-and-the-digital-estate GitHub Wiki

Attendees
- Dean H. Saxe (self)
- George Fletcher (Practical Identity LLC)
- Miki Brotzler (NAB/IDPro)
- Jean Kaplansky (self)
- Gary Gwin
- Tim L
- Eleanor Merrit
Note taker: Gary Gwin
Welcome and antitrust policy reminder
Upcoming meetings
- 2025-07-11 7:00 AM PDT (Jean will be OOO)
- 2025-07-23 3:00 PM PDT (Dean will be OOO)
Dean has joined the board of advisors at Eternal Me (eternal.me). Shared to be clear about his affiliations.
Review recent articles / links posted in Slack
- https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/13/magazine/ai-avatar-life-death.html
  - Creepy, maybe selfish by the son, possibly helpful to make sure wishes are carried out
- https://www.axios.com/2025/06/24/gerry-connolly-james-walkinshaw-dead-social-media
  - Ethical responsiblity when operating on someone's behalf
  - Authorization to act, with possibly limited scopes, on someone's behalf who is deceased
  - Guidance on what you should be aware of as an executor or beneficiary
  - Possible icons or images that desginate an account actor is deceased
  - Possible overlap with authorization discussions for MCP
    - https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/authorization
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-richardson-in-memorium-00
- See the new DADE resources wiki: https://github.com/openid/death-and-the-digital-estate/wiki/Resources
  - File issues if you want something added to the wiki.
Planning Guide for Cyber Security Awareness Month - Next Steps
- Draft outline
  - Review Open Issues for CyberSecAwarenessMonth
- Draft planning guide document is available in Google Docs
  - Request edit access
  - Looking for volunteers to pick up specific sections
  - Collect a list of obligations for executors of a digital estate: first 30 days, first 90 days, etc.
    - Could be geo-specific, do we want to tackle this?
      - Perhaps a generalized list with a specific example for one country
    - Two audiences: 1) Pro-active person creating the estate plan; 2) Reactive person executing the estate plan
      - Useful priortization for each actor
      - https://github.com/openid/death-and-the-digital-estate/issues/37
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