The Korea Digital Authentication Association said on the 2nd that, with Soonchunhyang University Professor Yeom Heung-yeol taking office as the new chair, it will move to strengthen international standard development and global cooperation in digital identity and security.
Chair Yeom is an international standards expert in information security and personal data protection, and has led international standardization activities representing Korea at bodies such as the International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) and the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission Joint Technical Committee 1 (ISO/IEC JTC 1). Yeom chaired the ITU-T Study Group 17 on security for eight years and also spearheaded the establishment of more than 60 international standards.
Most recently, at the ITU-T SG17 international meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland, on the 1st to 10th of last month, Yeom led the Soonchunhyang University standards research team, the Korea Digital Authentication Association, and the Raonsecure standardization team to propose and win adoption of three new international standardization projects, including AI agent identity management and an age assurance system.
Specifically, the "AI agent identity management" technical report outlines a framework to manage AI agents' identities in an agentic AI environment based on decentralized identifiers (DID) and verifiable credentials (VC), and it is being jointly proposed by Korea and the United States, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) joining as a co-editor. The age assurance system international standard contains online age verification and validation technologies and implementation guidelines, and it is being jointly proposed by Korea, South Africa, and Qatar and co-developed by ITU-T and ISO/IEC.
The development of the three newly adopted standardization projects into international standards will be led by editors Professor Yeom Heung-yeol, Soonchunhyang University Head of Team Park Seong-chae, and Raonsecure professional Hyun Da-eun.
Association Chair Yeom Heung-yeol said, "We have begun a journey of international standardization to reflect, in international standards, decentralized identity management mechanisms suited to an agentic AI environment, leveraging Korea's excellent decentralized identity management technologies held by association members such as Raonsecure and the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation," adding, "We will strengthen the association's role as a hub for global identity authentication standardization based on digital identity and will continue to push forward the development of international standards in related fields."