Statements & participation

International institutions

Selected official statements, declarations, and institutional participation of Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd at the United Nations, the OECD, and other international bodies. Participation in international discussions does not imply endorsement or adoption by the institutions mentioned.

United Nations Headquarters — Public statement

Public intervention by Michael Benaudis, President & Founder, at the United Nations Headquarters, New York City, U.S.A.

“73 years ago, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and today digital technology has created new threats to Human Rights such as data privacy and identity fraud. Fortunately, digital technology has the power to transform the world and to protect the privacy of all of us.”

Statements submitted to the United Nations OEWG

Statements submitted to the United Nations Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on the Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).

UN
2021

OEWG ICT — December 2021

Statement by Michael Benaudis, President & Founder of Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd, at the Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies, United Nations Headquarters, New York.

PDF · United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
UN
2022

OEWG — Third substantive session, July 2022

Final statement by Https Card — Internet Identity Card Ltd to the UN Open-Ended Working Group on Security of and in the use of Information and Communications Technologies in the context of international security — from 25 to 29 July 2022 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (UNHQ).

PDF · United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)
UN
2019

OEWG — First intersessional meeting, December 2019

Through resolution 73/27, the General Assembly established an Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG). On 2–4 December 2019, Https Card — Internet Identity Card participated as an accredited non-state actor in New York for the intersessional meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG). These discussions on international peace and security in cyberspace were open to non-state actors for the first time in the United Nations' history.

Accredited participation · UN General Assembly resolution 73/27

OECD — Digital Identity Governance

Https Card, represented by its founder Michael Benaudis, contributed comments to the OECD public consultation on the draft Recommendation on the Governance of Digital Identity, run by the Public Governance Directorate through its Observatory of Public Sector Innovation.

An OECD Recommendation is a legal instrument adopted by the OECD Council. It is not legally binding, but represents a political commitment by Adherents to the principles it contains. The consultation was open to governments, civil society, international organisations and interested stakeholders; a contribution to it is neither a review nor an endorsement of the contributor.

OECD
2023

Public consultation contribution

Comment on Article VIII.7.b of the draft Recommendation — the domestic recognition of digital identity solutions, attributes and credentials issued in other countries — followed by a three-message technical exchange on data ownership, user consent and schema interoperability. Submitted 24 March 2023 during the consultation window of 17–31 March 2023.

Contribution to a public consultation · OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation

Technical & institutional activity — IIC v9.0

Following the release of IIC v9.0, its hybrid post-quantum architecture has been submitted for standards discussion, permanent academic archiving, and public policy consultation.

IETF
2026

Internet-Draft — IIC Credential Format

“The Internet Identity Card (IIC) Credential Format: A Self-Contained, Offline-Verifiable Identity Credential with Hybrid Classical and Post-Quantum Signatures” — independent submission to the IETF Datatracker, describing the v9.0 format, its crypto-agile suite registry, and its hybrid verification rule.

draft-benaudis-iic-credential-00 · Internet Engineering Task Force
DOI
2026

IIC v9.0 Specification Corpus — Zenodo (CERN)

Technical Specification, Engineering Specification, Threat Model, and User Guide for IIC v9.0, permanently archived with a Digital Object Identifier and indexed in OpenAIRE.

DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21738536 · Zenodo, CERN
EC
2026

European Commission — Data Sovereignty Consultation

Contribution to the Commission's targeted consultation on safeguarding the EU's data sovereignty, positioning offline-first, zero-intermediary architecture — illustrated by IIC v9.0's hybrid post-quantum design — as a complement to contractual and jurisdictional data-sovereignty instruments.

Contribution ID c163e082-9eac-40a8-a43c-c7e353df6b9b · European Commission, DG CONNECT
ORCID
0009-0008-7763-1691 · orcid.org/0009-0008-7763-1691
NIST NCCoE
Community of Interest member — Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography; Digital Identities (mDL)

Other participation

Each entry below states what the record establishes, and nothing beyond it. Accreditation, contribution, membership, endorsement and attendance are five different facts; they are named separately here rather than grouped under one word. Where a public record exists, it is linked. Where none does, the entry says so.

Accredited — admitted subject to State non-objection

United Nations OEWG
Listed as a non-governmental entity for the sixth substantive session of the Open-ended Working Group on security of information and communications technologies, New York, 11–15 December 2023. General Assembly document A/AC.292/2023/INF/6, 20 November 2023, entry 47 of 86. Stakeholder participation in the OEWG proceeds by circulation to Member States under a non-objection procedure.
UN Digital Library ↗ · SHA-256 of the PDF a32265fcf71f996209cc3ba53be3275aaa91b84c74a3fad4c992c36f6a4578d5 (153,269 bytes)

Signatory — open endorsement

Global Digital Compact
Listed among the individuals and organisations that have endorsed the United Nations Global Digital Compact. The endorsement list is open and is not subject to selection.
un.org ↗
Paris Call
Supporter of the Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace, launched 12 November 2018. The source is no longer reachable: as of 25 August 2026 pariscall.international returns HTTP 503 on all pages. The entry is retained on the evidence of an archived capture and is not currently verifiable at source.
Internet Archive, 5 June 2020 ↗

Member — organisations joined by subscription

Decentralized Identity Foundation
Listed among DIF members. DIF develops specifications for decentralised identity in coordination with W3C work on Verifiable Credentials and DIDs.
identity.foundation ↗
W3C
Participant, World Wide Web Consortium.
Internet Society
Member.

Attendance — open meetings and consultations

Internet Governance Forum
Registered online participant, First and Second Open Consultations and Multistakeholder Advisory Group meetings of the 2020 IGF preparatory cycle (14–16 January 2020, United Nations Office at Geneva; and June 2020). These consultations are open; registration is not subject to accreditation.
SHA-256 of the January 2020 summary 3b177bde8709e237a1e2d6dddeb88ec24e1a02e18f3f7f6e73dbed6fe921d195 (411,662 bytes)
European Commission
Participant, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation.
ICANN
Participant, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
BORDERPOL
Speaker, 7th BORDERPOL Forum, co-hosted by the Ministry of the Interior of Spain, 2015.

Entries without a link are recorded from company files and are not independently verifiable from a public register. They are listed for completeness and should be weighed accordingly.

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Statement to the UN OEWG, December 2021
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Statement to the UN OEWG, July 2022
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A/AC.292/2023/INF/6
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IGF 2020, first MAG meeting summary
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