Advisory
The companion to the Digital Estate Roles reference. That one says what the law is; these ask what should be built on it.
Argument, not sourced reference. Every legal claim here is carried from the reference, where it has a pinpoint citation and a retrieval date; the recommendations are ours and carry no such authority.
Research for the OpenID Foundation’s Death and the Digital Estate effort. Fifty-seven jurisdictions of verified law turn out to make a conformance suite: most of what a protocol would need already exists in some specification, and the parts that do not are specific enough to name.
Read in order. The use cases establish what a platform is actually asked for and how far each legal basis reaches; the landscape measures the current standards against that; the event set proposes the one piece nothing supplies.
Based on Digital Estate Roles, which carries the citations.
Use cases across jurisdictions
What a platform actually faces, use case by use case, across 57 jurisdictions: which legal roles can carry each one, how far each reaches, and why high coverage is not the same as interoperability.
02 Survey and argument. Specification status verified 14 October 2026 and will date.Standards landscape, against what the law requires
Where the current identity and authorization standards stand against what 57 jurisdictions of verified law actually require — ten conformance tests, each traceable to a statute.
03 Argument and evidence. The normative definitions live in the openid-dade-events specification, which governs where the two disagree.A DADE event set for the Shared Signals Framework
The argument and the sourced evidence behind a Shared Signals event set for digital-estate access — why five events rather than one per legal transition, and what each has to carry to be correct in more than one jurisdiction.