Proposed Group: Internet Protocol Identity Community Group

The Internet Protocol Identity Community Group has been proposed by Doug Schepers:

This group is for the discussion of assigning an IPv6 address for every person on Earth, so everyone has a digital identity.

Each individual could use this to proxy or alias other identifiers, permanent or temporary, over different spans of their lifetime. Thus, a person they can manage their domain names, physical or email addresses, phone numbers, WebRTC address, and other contact info as they wish, flexibly maintaining an identity in a decentralized way not controlled by third-party commercial interests or even governments.

This system could also be used for organizations, businesses, animals, or any other entity that needs an identity.

This group may produce specifications.

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of five supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team