The objectives of this SIG is to further develop and maintain the Digital Wallet Overview and including the digital identity agents/SDKs in the overview. The overview can be found here. These overview should provide transparency of the characteristics of wallets and agents in order to allow for comparison and effective decision-making on which wallet is applicable for your use case. By creating awareness of these overviews, this work can lead to less fragmentation of the SSI playing field and increase adoption.
The old overview can be found here, we are still merging the elemente in the new one.
This SIG is an open group. Anyone in the OpenWallet Foundation community can join and participate. There is no formal sign up process. Just show up and participate.
If you are interested in participating, please join the OpenWallet Foundation Discord and participate in the discussion in the #digital-wallet-and-agent-overviews-sig channel.
Upcoming meetings: We meet every second Thursday via Zoom, the next date and time plus a calendar invitation can be found via this link.
In case you have an openprofile with the same mail address as your calendar invitation, you can access all the recordings of the past meetings.
We strive to create a comprehensive and unbiased platform where every provider can showcase their solution at no cost. Recognising the challenge in quantifying subjective aspects, such as user-friendliness, our focus is on objective parameters. These include resource links and compliance with specific standards, ensuring clear, fact-based comparisons. By allowing and encouraging community contributions through pull requests, we maintain an up-to-date and inclusive matrix. Your active participation by submitting updates or new entries is invaluable, as it not only ensures the overview is correct and complete, but also supports a more informed and diverse user base.
Contributing to the overview can be done through filling in the form provided when clicking "Add Wallet/agent" in the upper right corner of the overview. The created JSON file can be submitted via a GITHUB pull request.
This overview should be usable by persons and organisations. Anyone willing to use digital wallets or agents for digital credential purposes should be able to objectively compare the characteristics of wallets/agents and create a short-list of candidates for their use case. It can also serve as resource for market awareness and visibility of wallets/agents for wallet/agent vendors.
We use the terminilogy on digital credentials, wallets and agents as described in the ToIP glossary.
Included in the overview are holder agents+wallets, issuer agents and verifier agents. Initially, we will only include wallets and agents that at least have the functionality to store and exchange digital credentials.
This SIG was accepted by the TAC on September 20, 2023. See Digital Wallet and Agent Overviews SIG Proposal for more details.
There is a strong connection with the credential format comparison SIG. The credential formats are incorporated as separate characterics (columns) in the overview, forming the basis of the technology stack.
We foresee that the safe wallet SIG provided us with new characteristics in the category of 'Security'.