ISO/IEC NP 9594-13.4

Information technology — Open Systems Interconnection — Part 13: The directory: Specification for a decentralized public-key infrastructure (DPKI) ISO/IEC NP 9594-13.4

Scope

The proposed standard is intended to be a new part of the ISO/IEC 9594 series. It will be developed as collaborative work with ITU-T Study Group 17. It is intended to be developed as common text and is expected also to be part of the ITU-T X.500 series of Recommendations.
The scope is to develop a specification for a Decentralized Public-Key Infrastructure (DPKI) based on the blockchain technology allowing a worldwide PKI where trust is established by consensus.