Skip to content
Saakshya
Join

हिंदी

How we plan to run it

Updated 12 October 2026

Where things stand

Saakshya isn't incorporated. Everything on this page is a plan, written down so you can argue with it before it becomes fixed. Where something is a plan we say so, and where we haven't decided we say that too.

How we plan to govern itA foundation at the top, with members, working groups and board seats beneath it. Every part is planned, and none of it exists yet.Saakshya Bharat FoundationA Section 8 non-profit, plannedMembersOrganisations and individuals,plannedWorking groupsMembers write the standardtogether, plannedBoard seatsSet aside for three kinds ofpeople, plannedGovernmentOne seat, plannedIndustryOne seat, plannedAcademiaOne seat, plannedDashed outlines are planned, not built yet.
How we plan to run it. None of this exists yet.
Read this diagram as text
  1. At the top is the Saakshya Bharat Foundation, a Section 8 non-profit company. It is planned and not yet incorporated.
  2. Beneath it are three planned parts: members, working groups and board seats.
  3. Members are the organisations and individuals who join. This is planned.
  4. Working groups are where members write the standard together. This is planned.
  5. Board seats are planned for government, industry and academic representatives.

The legal form

We're setting up the Saakshya Bharat Foundation as a Section 8 company under India's Companies Act, 2013. It's in formation. A Section 8 company exists for a public or charitable aim. It can't pay dividends to its members, and any surplus goes back into the work.

Who would sit on the board

Four kinds of seat are planned: government, industry, academia, and members elected by the membership. We haven't named anyone, because there is no one to name yet. No seat has been confirmed. How many seats each group gets isn't decided either, and we'd like the founding group to help settle that.

Working groups

Four are planned. They don't exist yet.

  • Credential format. What a credential for an agent says and how it is written down.
  • Relying-party guidance. Plain advice for a bank, hospital or office on what to check and what to do when a check fails.
  • DPDP alignment. How the format and the guidance line up with India's data protection law. This group will want lawyers in it.
  • Hindi terms. Words for all of this that people actually use, in Hindi and other Indian languages.

The licence

Some of the technical work behind the reference implementation is the subject of patent filings. Our intent is that anyone can implement the open specification without paying us or asking permission. A licence saying so has been drafted. It hasn't been signed, and until it is we won't call it done.

How it's paid for

At first, the foundation runs on grants and donations. Fees, if any, are decided with the founding group once the foundation exists, and nothing is due from anyone before then.

The order things happen in

This is our current thinking, and it may change.

  1. Incorporate the foundation.
  2. Approve the first founding members.
  3. Agree a charter with them: how decisions get made, how fees are set, how the specification can change.
  4. Seat the first board.
  5. Publish the specification and sign the licence.

Until then

There's no board, so the founder makes the calls. The rule the founder is holding to is simple: decide in the open, and write down why. When there are decisions to write down, we'll say on this site where they live.