FWIU, DHS has funded [1] development of e.g W3C DID Decentralized Identifiers [2] and W3C Verifiable Credentials [3]:
[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aw3.org+%22funded+by+t...
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
[3] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/
Additional notes regarding credentials (certificates, badges, degrees, honorarial degrees, then-evaluated competencies) and capabilities models: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19813340
westurner/blockchain-credential-resources.md: https://gist.github.com/westurner/4345987bb29fca700f52163c33...
Value storage and transmission networks have developed standards and implementations for identity, authentication, and authorization. ILP (Interledger Protocol) RFC 15 specifies "ILP addresses" for [crypto] ledger account IDs: https://interledger.org/rfcs/0015-ilp-addresses/
From "Verifiable Credentials Use Cases" https://w3c.github.io/vc-use-cases/ :
> A verifiable claim is a qualification, achievement, quality, or piece of information about an entity's background such as a name, government ID, payment provider, home address, or university degree. Such a claim describes a quality or qualities, property or properties of an entity which establish its existence and uniqueness. The use cases outlined here are provided in order to make progress toward possible future standardization and interoperability of both low- and high-stakes claims with the goals of storing, transmitting, and receiving digitally verifiable proof of attributes such as qualifications and achievements. The use cases in this document focus on concrete scenarios that the technology defined by the group should address.
FWIU, the US Department of Education is studying or already working with https://blockcerts.org/ for educational credentials.
Here are the open sources of blockchain-certificates/cert-issuer and blockchain-certificates/cert-verifier-js: https://github.com/blockchain-certificates
Might a natural-born resident get a government ID card for passing a recycling and environmental sustainability quiz.