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Identosphere 133: Beyond Client/Server • DIDs on Metamask • SSI Market Share • Decentralized Social Networking Protocol

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Identosphere 133: Beyond Client/Server • DIDs on Metamask • SSI Market Share • Decentralized Social Networking Protocol

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Upcoming

  • [online] Is Your Association Ready for Verifiable Credentials? Credivera 5/15 - providing greater value to their constituents, while protecting their education and credentialing programs

  • Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) Demo Week 2023 Washington, DC 5/18-19 [register]

  • The 19th Represents Summit on tech, justice, and economic mobility Chicago 5/18-20

  • [Brussels] Blockchain-Based Identity Management Systems: Opportunities and Challenges 5/24 - CPDP gathers academics, lawyers, practitioners, policy-makers, industry and civil society from all over the world to discuss the latest emerging issues and trends

  • Web 3.0: Self Sovereign Identity for Startups 5/24 - Panel at Wacom Europe GmbH

  • Heroes of Data Privacy – the practise-oriented data privacy conference in Vienna LionsGate 5/24 Vienna, Austria

  • [Virtual Option] London Event: MEF CONNECTS Personal Data & Identity 5/25 Identity Praxis, Inc. ←-Rebekah CEO of Numeracle is presenting

  • How MyData conference became the most impactful event for personal data sharing 5/31-6/1

  • did:hack - decentralized identity hackathon 6/6 

  • Digital Identity unConference Europe 6/7-9 Zurich ← Registration open (Kaliya is helping organize)

Standards

[podcast] Thinking Beyond Client-Server Architectures (with Daniel Hardman) Northern Block, SSIOrbit

The purpose of this podcast episode isn’t to sway people against using client-server architecture for digital identity implementations. Rather, we aim to have a discussion around the trade-offs we make when making these architectural decisions. 

Internet Centralization: What Can Standards Do? IETF, Mark Nottingham

This document discusses centralization in Internet protocols and relates it to consolidation of power, explains why both are undesirable, identifies forces that contribute to them, catalogues limitations of common approaches to decentralization, and explores what Internet standards efforts can do.

OAuth DPoP specification is in the hands of the RFC Editor Mike Jones

The OAuth 2.0 Demonstrating Proof-of-Possession at the Application Layer (DPoP) specification was approved by the IESG (spec)

OpenID for Verifiable Presentations Specification Approved OpenID

enables presentation of Verifiable Credentials as Verifiable Presentations. Verifiable Credentials and Verifiable Presentations can be of any format, including, but not limited to W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model, ISO mdoc, and AnonCreds.

Public Working Draft of Securing Verifiable Credentials using JWT Mike Jones

This specification defines how Verifiable Credentials can be represented as JSON Web Tokens (JWT) [RFC7519] and secured using JSON Web Signatures (JWS) [RFC7515].

What happened to MITREid Connect? Justin Security

• No internal user management, this would be handled by the corporate identity management system and plugged in through a service layer
• Pluggable authentication, so we could adapt it to whatever the corporate system and our customer environments had in place already

The Quest to Bring Computation to IPFS Fission

IPVM, or the InterPlanetary Virtual Machine, is Fission's effort to bring computation to IPFS using Wasm, SPKI, and object capabilities. Furthermore, IPVM liberates computation from its dependence on prenegotiated services and paves the way for interoperability.

Literature

Concepts for Secure Wallets in Decentralised Identity Ecosystems NextCloud (pdf)

New Paper Released in English 

security requirements for mobile, native wallet architecture for self-sovereign users and evaluate the existing security solution building blocks for hardware-bound key storage, biometrics and features of Android and iOS operating systems. The regulatory requirements are addressed through …

Business

[Case Study, Digital Product Passport, GS1] Empowering Sustainable Products and Consumer Confidence through Verifiable Credentials IDUnion

The proposed legislations, the Eco-design for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) (ESPR)2 and the "new Battery Regulation"3 provide the opportunity to drive this change by mandating the use of a digital product passport (DPP).

Companies

[Ethereum Zürich, Education] Self-Sovereign Identity UZH Blockchain Center; Daniel Saeuberli, ProofSpace

happy to be here and was invited by by the University of Zurich because of the project we did with them when it comes to student self-centered identities and master diplomas as verifiable credentials

[podcast] Monaco with Walt.ID 

Dom from Walt.ID joined the Podcast to explain to us what Walt.ID is all about, and how they are working towards the adoption of digital identity. Working with several companies, partner of IOTA Foundation and also involved with governments.

White Label Digital Identity Wallet Solution Dock

• The global identity solutions market was estimated to be worth $27.9 USD billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to 70.7 billion in 2027, which is a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 20.4%.
• Data by Gartner shows that 30% of all national governments will enable Digital Identity Wallets for mobile phones by 2024.
• In one study, 90% of global consumers said they would be willing to use a single digital identity service instead of providing their personal details to every site they use.

Explainer

[video] authentic storytelling for the era of generative AI Content Authenticity

Content Authenticity Initiative presented a panel to discuss how transparency tools and context meets the challenges and opportunities in generative technologies. 

[tweet] Join us as we explore different aspects of decentralized identity Walt ID

[tweet thread] Decentralized Identity, or DID, is a Proof-of-Citizen Infrastructure MashBean

Therefore, digital sovereignty = Sovereign State + Self-sovereign identity. One cannot be missing. This is the direction I have been researching recently. (5/5)

Policy

Brief For Thinking Locally And Globally For Digital Wallets And Identification The Dingle Group

The public sector forms outlined here are generalizations for the purpose of framing a discussion around the design, implementation and adoption of digital wallets and the digital identifiers and credentials stored there-in [...]
• Central authority, strong decentralized authority with wary support of population
• Centralized authority, strong decentralized authority with support of population
• Strong centralized authority with support of population
• Authoritarian

[USA] The Best & Worst States in America for Online Privacy (2023 Update) Private Internet Access

Thoughtful

The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online Rheingold

• Authentic conversations -- from the head, the heart, and the gut
• A feeling of ownership. Participants become evangelists
• A spirit of group creativity, experimentation, exploration, good will.

Blue checks for email are a bad idea Ben Werdmuller

It’s an unequal, annoying policy, made worse by the realization that Gmail is likely to add 

SSI & Web3ID

What Is Decentralized Identity? The Pillar of Web3 Blockworks Research

Another banger from Blockworks

Users need to be able to express their identity without accidentally making sensitive information permanently public [and] without carrying every mistake into an interaction. The decentralized identity ecosystem also [...] needs guarantees that [an] applicant isn’t hiding negative reputation claims.

Identity Snap - DIDs on Metamask Tuum Tech

Specifically, Identity Snap extends MetaMask's features by adding support for Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs). This plugin can be seamlessly installed as a JavaScript npm package

Meet ‘Frequency,’ Polkadot’s New Decentralized Social Media Parachain Coindesk

Frequency, the first implementation of The Decentralized Social Network Protocol (DSNP) [...] is probably best known as the protocol underpinning real estate billionaire Frank McCourt’s Project Liberty.
...
Rather than charging transaction fees to send messages, Frequency uses a token staking model that earns “capacity”

[tweet thread, Web3, DNS] Web3 Domains and their intersection with Decentralized Identity (DID) HashBrown Research

Conflates DID with their use in Web3 DNS

We can see that @ensdomains and @unstoppableweb are leading in terms of NFT Mints. Whereas in terms of Owners, @ensdomains, @SpaceIDProtocol, @unstoppableweb, @CyberConnectHQ are leading 

Building a Decentralized Identity Ecosystem, Together OPLabs

Not sure there is an actual “standard” involved

This means developers can use one common standard for making attestations that interoperate across the Superchain and Ethereum Mainnet.

DWeb FediVeverse

Blue skies over Mastodon Erin Kissane

Mastodon fans know that the network absolutely cannot compete on user friendliness and basic social functionality

The fediverse and the AT Protocol Ben Werdmuller

One core difference between the fediverse and the AT Protocol seems to be that AT decouples many key building blocks – identity, moderation, ranking algorithms, even your own data to some degree – from your server. The fediverse, on the other hand, ties them all to your server and sees that as a desirable feature.

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