1 Version History
The version history table describes the major changes to the specifications between published versions.
0.8 (draft not published)
Authors: Valerie Khan, Jaume Dubois, Debora Comparin, Stephanie De Labriolle, Ramesh Narayanan, Sasikumar Ganesan, Vishwanath V, Raul Kaidro, P.S Ramkumar, Dr. Edgar Whitley, Deepti Vikas Dutt, and Jonathan Marskell
Identity Building Block overall scope and requirements. Introduced the overall high level Identity Building Block scope and requirements.
0.9 (draft not published)
Authors: Jaume Dubois, Ramesh Narayanan, Sasikumar Ganesan, Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Jane Rose, Amy Darling
Adding requirements numbers for Identity Building Block.
1.0 RC1 (release candidate)
Authors: Jaume Dubois, Ramesh Narayanan, Sasikumar Ganesan, Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Jane Rose, Valerie Khan, Debora Comparin, Raul Kaidro, Edgar Whitley, Jonathan Marksell, Vyjanthi Desai, Deepti, Yiannis Theodorou
Introduce Usage APIS (Verification & Federation).
1.0.0 May 2023
Authors: Jaume Dubois, Ramesh Narayanan, Sasikumar Ganesan, Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Jane Rose, Valerie Khan, Debora Comparin, Raul Kaidro, Edgar Whitley, Jonathan Marksell, Vyjanthi Desai, Deepti, Yiannis Theodorou Technical Reviewers: Tony Shannon, Saša Kovačević, Riham Moawad, Riham Fahmi, Aare Laponin, Manish Srivastava, Palab Saha, Surendra Singh Sucharia, Arvind Gupta, Gayatri. P., Shivank Singh Chauhan, Gavin Lyons Editors: Wesley Brown, Steve Conrad, Valeria Tafoya
Final edits to align content to specification template for GovStack 1.0 release
1.0.1 February 2024
Authors: Smita Selot, Jaume Dubois, Ramesh Narayanan, Sasikumar Ganesan, Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Jane Rose
Open Enrollment API to handle multiple cases/contexts
1.1.0 (also known as 23Q4) October 2024
Authors: Jaume Dubois , Ramesh Narayanan , Sasikumar Ganesan , Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Torsten Lodderstedt, Jane Rose, Smita Selot
Updated Description covering Centralized, Federated and Distributed IDs. Restructure of Key Digital Functionalities. Inclusion of Wallet Binding API. Additional detailed workflows.
1.1.1 (also known as 23Q4.1) November 2024
Authors: Jaume Dubois , Ramesh Narayanan , Sasikumar Ganesan , Vishwanath V, Dr. P. S. Ramkumar, Jane Rose, Smita Selot
Minor updates for clarity
2.0 December 2025
Contributors: Charity Chirowamhangu, Antony Muriithi, Daniel Abadie, Norbert Nahayo, Rounak Nayak, Eric Ramirez, and Mary Metias Authors: Mikael Linden, David Higgins. and Smita Selot Reviewers: Yuliia Kravchenko, Smita Selot. Editor: Ali González-García
Incorporation of Credential Management APIs
Updates to Terminology, removal of references to IDVBB to IDBB. Consistency updates to order and flow between key digital functionalities and requirements. Updated diagrams to reflect core services.
See Release Notes for detail.
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