Rebooting the Web of Trust V: Boston (October 2017)
This repository contains documents related to RWOT5, the fifth Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshop, which is to run in Boston, Masachusetts, on October 3rd-5th, 2017. The goal of the workshop was to generate five technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that would have the greatest impact on the future.
Please see the Web of Trust Info website for more information about our community. Go to Eventbrite to register for this event.
Topics & Advance Readings
In advance of the design workshop, all participants produced a one-or-two page topic paper to be shared with the other attendees on either:
- A specific problem that they wanted to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (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?
The advanced readings published to date are:
- #RebootingWebOfTrust User Story & Tech Concept by Christopher Allen
- ActivityPub: from decentralized to distributed social networks by Christopher Allan Webber (PDF version)
- BTCR DIDs and DDOs by Kim Hamilton Duffy
- DID for the 3D Web by Alberto Elias
- Framework for the Comparison of Identity Systems by Kyle Den Hartog
- Hypercerts: Blockcerts Revocation Improvements by João Santos and Kim Hamilton Duffy
- Open Badges (and Blockcerts) as Verifiable Claims by Kim Hamilton Duffy and Nate Otto
- Owned vs. Unowned Claims and Self-Sovereign Identity by Natalie Smolenski
- A Primer on Functional Identity by Joe Andrieu
- Recommendations for Decentralized Key Management Systems by Michael Lodder
- Trust Objects: Enabling Advanced Reputation Services on the Web of Trust by Moses Ma & Dr. Rutu Mulka
- A Verifiable Claims Primer by Manu Sporny
- A very gentle introduction to DIDs by Kim Hamilton Duffy
- Visa? Really? by Kaliya Identity Woman
Other Readings of Interest
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
Complete Rebooting the Web of Trust Listing
A different repository is available for each of the Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshops:
- Rebooting the Web of Trust I: San Francisco (November 2015)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust II: ID2020 (May 2016)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust III: San Francisco (October 2016)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust IV: Paris (April 2017)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust V: Boston (October 2017)
License
All of the contents of this directory are licensed Creative Commons CC-BY their contributors.