Investigate Global COVID Certificate Network

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Global COVID Certificates Implementation Toolkit

• Governance framework template. Participating governments and industry alliances will be able to make their own policies (e.g. the type of COVID certificates they issue and accept) using the governance framework template. Every participating organization will be able to decide whether or not to accept another jurisdiction’s certificates based on rules they set.
• Schema definitions and minimum datasets. We will provide schema definitions and minimum datasets for all three use cases (vaccination, test results, recovery from infection) of the Global COVID Certificates as well as a paper version for each.
• Technical specifications. We will provide technical specifications for all software components needed to issue, hold and verify the Global COVID Certificates. These include QR code specifications, certificate applications, formats, and signatures.
• Implementation guides and open source reference implementations. LFPH is working with our existing open source projects, Medcreds and Cardea, to incorporate the Blueprint recommendations. Our COVID Credentials Initiative (CCI) has been working over the past few months to create implementation guides for COVID certificates.
• Implementation and governance guidance. We at the Linux Foundation will not directly deploy trust registries or COVID certificate systems on behalf of governments or other institutions. That will typically be done by government technology teams and their vendors or other partners working under contract. Instead, we expect our community will be a home for peer advising on implementation and governance to anyone implementing COVID certificate systems. That could include how to build a country/jurisdiction-level trust registry and other related infrastructure, and how to leverage the Global COVID Certificates to incorporate existing institutions or communities into a national or jurisdiction-level trust infrastructure.

Vendor Network The ability to turn good principles, plans, and open source code into production implementation depends on a vibrant commercial ecosystem. We are building a directory of vendors who can competently work on these kinds of projects, so that governments and institutions can more easily get running.

We have been discussing the development of COVID certificate systems with the Science and Technology Options Assessment Panel of the European Parliament. Our hope is that GCCN can become an important link between the EU Digital COVID Certificate Gateway (and Member States’ COVID certificate ecosystems) and new and existing COVID certificate ecosystems throughout the world. We look forward to further collaboration with relevant EU institutions to explore and create conversion mechanisms between the EU Digital COVID certificate and the Global COVID Certificate.