2025‐06‐25 Minutes

• 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

• AOB