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Market signals, SSI trending, and the road to mainstream adoption.

Three years and one pandemic later, the demand for cryptographically secure, privacy-respecting and machine-verifiable electronic credentials has grown and, as a result, governments are starting to wake up to VC’s potential.

Updated: 2023-06-19 9 minute read

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Hyperledger Indy

Hyperledger Indy provides tools, libraries, and reusable components for providing digital identities rooted on blockchains or other distributed ledgers so that they are interoperable across administrative domains, applications, and any other silo. Indy is interoperable with other blockchains or c...

Updated: 2023-06-12 8 minute read

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Principles and Characteristics of Self Sovereign Identity

There are a few different ways to approach and describe SSI. What I aim to do is come up with a list of different “SSI Cases” to modularize the treatment of the subject. This will allow each to contribute in the way that makes most sense for themselves, rather than trying to discuss SSI as a whol...

Updated: 2023-06-24 11 minute read

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The Dataweb: An Introduction to XDI

The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, exchanged, linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable dataweb using XML documents just as content from any content source can linked into the human-readable Web using HTML documents today. Because the controls needed t...

Updated: 2020-12-09 41 minute read

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Augmented Social Network

The Augmented Social Network is a proposal for a “next generation” online community that would strengthen the collaborative nature of the Internet, enhancing its ability to act as a public commons that engages citizens in civil society. The ASN creates an infrastructure for trusted relationships ...

Updated: 2020-11-26 172 minute read

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Research, Literature, Reports related to Self Sovereign Identity

provides an overview of the SSI properties, focusing on an in-depth analysis, furthermore presenting a comprehensive collection of SSI properties that are important for the implementation of the SSI system.

Updated: 2023-07-01 18 minute read

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Microledgers and Edge-Chains - A Primer

Evernym’s Chief Architect Daniel Hardman takes the Hyperledger community through Evernym’s work on Microledgers and Edge-Chains Architecture. Attendees will gain insight into the theory, applications and evolution in Hyperledger Indy along with a practical discussion of their potential.

Updated: 2019-12-11 37 minute read

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Principles and Characteristics of Self Sovereign Identity

There are a few different ways to approach and describe SSI. What I aim to do is come up with a list of different “SSI Cases” to modularize the treatment of the subject. This will allow each to contribute in the way that makes most sense for themselves, rather than trying to discuss SSI as a whol...

Updated: 2023-06-24 11 minute read

Tags:
History
Laws of Identity
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
UNSDGs
Windhover Principles
lifeID
notes

Principles and Characteristics of Self Sovereign Identity

There are a few different ways to approach and describe SSI. What I aim to do is come up with a list of different “SSI Cases” to modularize the treatment of the subject. This will allow each to contribute in the way that makes most sense for themselves, rather than trying to discuss SSI as a whol...

Updated: 2023-06-24 11 minute read

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History
Laws of Identity
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
UNSDGs
Windhover Principles
lifeID
notes

History

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The Dataweb: An Introduction to XDI

The goal of XDI is to enable data from any data source to be identified, exchanged, linked, and synchronized into a machine-readable dataweb using XML documents just as content from any content source can linked into the human-readable Web using HTML documents today. Because the controls needed t...

Updated: 2020-12-09 41 minute read

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History (2000-2009) Augmented Social Network - Laws of Identity - User Centric

The first International Planetwork Conference - Global Ecology and Information Technology, San Francisco, May 2000. The community that developed around the Planetwork conferences, including Linktank, formed the social and intellectual foundation for what became known as Self Sovereign Identity.

Updated: 2020-01-04 18 minute read

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YADIS

Bitcoin and Self Sovereign Identity (ION + BTCR)

ION does not rely on centralized entities, trusted validators, or special protocol tokens – ION answers to no one but you, the community. Because ION is an open, permissionless system, anyone can run an ION node, in fact the more nodes in operation, the stronger the network becomes.

Updated: 2023-06-25 7 minute read

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Decentralized Identity. Pre-history + resources for further exploration.

These pages are loosely categorized by year and era. The date ranges, are somewhat arbitrary and not perfectly adhered to, and the headings are not perfect descriptors of those date ranges. Rather those are some major themes occuring within that time period.

Updated: 2020-01-05 6 minute read

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History
IDCommons
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Principles and Characteristics of Self Sovereign Identity

There are a few different ways to approach and describe SSI. What I aim to do is come up with a list of different “SSI Cases” to modularize the treatment of the subject. This will allow each to contribute in the way that makes most sense for themselves, rather than trying to discuss SSI as a whol...

Updated: 2023-06-24 11 minute read

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History
Laws of Identity
Literature
RWoT
Self Sovereign Identity
UNSDGs
Windhover Principles
lifeID
notes

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Microledgers and Edge-Chains - A Primer

Evernym’s Chief Architect Daniel Hardman takes the Hyperledger community through Evernym’s work on Microledgers and Edge-Chains Architecture. Attendees will gain insight into the theory, applications and evolution in Hyperledger Indy along with a practical discussion of their potential.

Updated: 2019-12-11 37 minute read

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DID:PEER
Evernym
GDPR
HGF 2018
Hyperledger Forum
Indy
Literature
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The First Production Government Deployment of Hyperledger Indy - Verifiable Organizations Network

VON’s founding members are governments who are, by law, trusted issuers of data about organizations. The Province of British Columbia, Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada have come together to create the initial services needed to establish VON. VON’s founders have delivered new Indy...

Updated: 2019-07-11 31 minute read

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HGF 2018
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Verifiable Credentials
Verifiable Organizations Network
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