This repository contains documents related to the "Rebooting the Web-of-Trust" series of events in the spring of 2017.
The fourth DesignShop event, to be held in the Paris, France on April 19th, 20th, & the 21st 2017, is a facilitated, invite-only event focused on creating the next generation of decentralized web-of-trust based identity systems. The goal of this initial DesignShop is to generate 5 technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that will have the greatest impact on the future.
In advance of the April DesignShop, all participants were requested to post in the Topics and Advanced Readings folder a one- or two-page topics paper to be shared with other attendees on either:
- A specific problem that you'd like to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (such as PGP or CA-based PKI) can't address the problem.
- A specific solution related to the web-of-trust that you'd like others to use or contribute to.
Our current list of topic papers:
- Aligning Signature Formats by Manu Sporny, Christopher Allen, Jason Law, and Ryan Shea
- Beyond Identity Cards by Joe Andrieu
- Blockcerts and Open Badges Signature Alignment by Kim Hamilton Duffy
- Booting a Web of Sovereignty with a Decentralized Social App by Adam Lake
- Certificate Chains for DID-based Self-sovereign Identities by Christian Lundkvist
- Credit-based Reputations for Identity Management with Blockchain and Flow Networks by Tobias Mayer, Obar Hasan, and Lionel Brunie
- DID Auth by James Monaghan
- The DID Family of Specifications by Drummond Reed
- DID Method Specifications / BTCR and PGPR by Ryan Grant
- DID Names by Drummond Reed and James Monaghan
- Distributed Identities as a EU Cross-border Identity Infrastructure by L. Boldrin
- DKMS—Decentralized Key Management System by Drummond Reed
- Fostering the Resilience of an Ecosystem of Workers through Regulated Decentralized Reputation by Philippe Honigman & Klara Sok
- ID-Blockchain: An Initiative towards Privacy-preserving Blockchain-based Identity by Olivier Maas & Florent Poiron
- The IP Blockchain: Enhancing Global Responsiveness to Infectious Disease Outbreaks by Moses Ma, Mark van der Waal, and Net Jacobsson
- Project Vouch: A Decentralized Identity Network Based on Public Attestation, Reputation, and Approval of Identity Attributes by Angus Champion
- Reputation Proofs by Dmitry Khovratovich
- RWoT Proposals and Modern Portable Secure Hardware by Nicolas Bacca
- Self-sovereign Deregulated Identity by Pierre Noizat
- Towards a User-centered Web of Trust by Fabien Petitcolas & Paul Dunphy
- Trust for Security and Security for Trust by Nikolaos Alexopoulos
- Verifiable Claims and Web of Trust by Manu Sporny, Christopher Allen, Joe Andrieu, Matthew Collier, Dave Longley, and Adam Lake
- XDI Verifiable Claims and Link Contracts by Markus Sabadello
Following are some of the finished papers from past design shops. They're good reading to understand who we are and what our priorities and goals are:
- Rebranding the Web of Trust — What is the Webof Trust? A quick overview. RWOT1
- DID Implementer's Draft — The draft for decentralized identifiers, the most robust and complete spec to come out of our design shops. RWOT3
- Satisfying Real-World Use Cases — Digital identity in the real-world. RWOT1
- Identity Crisis: Identity through Correlation — An alternative way to look at identity. RWOT2
- HIE of One Blockchain — Identity and the physician-patient relationship. RWOT2
- Smart Consent Protocol — COALA and Consent Receipts. RWOT3
You may also wish to read Christopher Allen's core article on self-sovereign identity:
- The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity — Ten principles of self-sovereign identity. Life with Alacrity