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Christopher Allen

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9 days until #RWOT9 in Prague, and 5 more topic papers to read & summarize. Remember that an advance reading is not for it to be judged like a peer-reviewed paper. The goal instead is to communicate current interests and inspire, as the best may be ripe for a collaborative paper.

8/24/2019, 3:50:13 AM

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Christopher Allen

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…”The transaction cost has traditionally been reduced by introducing a centralized intermediary as technology operator. This avoids lagging open standards and reduces the cost for the peers to operate self-sovereign technology to execute the transaction.…”

8/24/2019, 4:03:11 AM

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Christopher Allen

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…”…However, as technology cost drops with Moore’s law and standards evolve, the transaction case for centralization becomes moot, leaving search and risk as practical barriers to decentralization.”

8/24/2019, 4:03:49 AM

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…”Search for a suitable peer and risk of transacting with that peer are related since a good search experience would consider risk as a major influence in the rankings.”

8/24/2019, 4:05:27 AM

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…"Reputation is highly contextual. My reputation as an Airbnb host has little to do with my reputation as a physician or my FICO score. To scale… commerce based on self-sovereign identity & DIDs we will need to provide a practical alternative to centralized reputation managers”

8/24/2019, 4:07:00 AM

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…paper suggest some clues on how to implement decentralized reputation can come from experience of Colony’s https://colony.io/whitepaper.pdf “reputation miners”, zkp for privacy, costs must be low compared to value of consumer, and cheating needs to be avoide, maybe by audits. …

8/24/2019, 4:13:03 AM

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“A medical referral could be worth $thousands & hours of research on the part of the patient. But the decision to allow that same medical record to be used for cancer research might be worth almost nothing ideally would not require a minute’s thought by a patient”

8/24/2019, 4:14:22 AM

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…“Identity is defined by Meg as the sense-making capacity of the organization. This understands itself and is relative to other things…Meg also talks about identity as being about boundaries and identity happens when there are distinctions between inside and outside.”

8/24/2019, 4:20:09 AM

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…”Information is the medium of organization—which is about how entities within share to make sense of themselves. Within organic organisms this happens with chemical signaling. Within human & organizational system this is done with language & other signaling mechanisms.”

8/24/2019, 4:23:43 AM

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…”Relationships are the pathways of the organization. That is information flows via relationships.”

8/24/2019, 4:25:10 AM

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…Philip Sheldrake “articulated the difference between “Personal data” and “Interpersonal data”. The former being largely between individuals and institutions and the latter between individuals and each other or more informal clusters or groups of people.”

8/24/2019, 4:26:22 AM

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…”It is not clear to me how the difference between personal data and interpersonal data is bridged and how we build sufficient institutional confidence in the latter but we believe it is worth exploration.”

8/24/2019, 4:26:56 AM

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…“KERI does not require a distributed consensus ledger but may be augmented with such a ledger. As a result KERI is a candidate component of a universal decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI).”

8/24/2019, 4:30:34 AM

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…”For decentralized identity systems based on self-certifying identifiers, management of the associated private keys is essential. Because the controlling entity holds their own private key(s) the primary burden of management falls on that entity or its assigns…”

8/24/2019, 4:33:15 AM

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…”…a decentralized identity system may have a multitude of controlling entities each controlling one or more identifiers. Some of these entities may not have the resources or the expertise to design, build, and maintain secure key management infrastructure…”

8/24/2019, 4:34:06 AM

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…“…Consequently there is a need for open interoperable decentralized key management infrastructure (DKMI).” “One design approach to composing scalable and performant infrastructure is to find minimally sufficient means for each of the key management tasks.”

8/24/2019, 4:35:27 AM

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…”This work describes a protocol that provides secure verifiable rotation that solves the problem of successful exploit of a given private key due to exposure when that exploit happens sometime after creation and use of the key.”

8/24/2019, 4:36:24 AM

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…This paper in some ways goes back to the roots of the first #RWOT over 4 years where many of the requirements of DPKI were defined, but takes one step further to start defining the requirements for self-sovereign key management to support DPKI.

8/24/2019, 4:43:04 AM

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…”The conversation around decentralization that took place since #RWOT8 has been a fruitful, which makes abundantly clear an uncomfortable truth-- "decentralization" is an almost impossible term to standardize across all its domains”

8/24/2019, 4:48:02 AM

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“Perhaps it would be easier to start with a slightly more verifiable, objective claim-- interoperability. It also feels to me, given the stakes for fundraising and government buy-in, to be a lot more urgent than decentralization ratings for the development of the SSI ecosystem…”

8/24/2019, 4:49:19 AM

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…”…Maybe we should start there, and set up structures of neutrality (and funding!) to certify and rate interoperability, before expanding the scope of that agency or adhoc whatever-it-is to weigh in on the Great Decentralization Debates of 2019?”

8/24/2019, 4:50:31 AM

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…This topic paper is exemplary of a powerful type of advance reading, the short opinion piece. It suggests that we should maybe forget the debate of rubric for decentralization but instead define rubric for interoperability, neutrality and industry fairness.

8/24/2019, 4:53:52 AM

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Christopher Allen

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…The topic paper goes on to suggest that during #RWOT9 we form a group that creates “a (generic) terminology process (at the same time developing the terminology for that process), selects one or two topics and use them to create a (first/draft) terminology for that topic”

8/24/2019, 5:04:44 AM

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TOPIC Using Verifiable Claims as a Proof of Ownership for Blockcerts KEY CONCEPTS Blockcerts predate the DID/VC specs, so transitionally how can they use a Verifiable Credential from a recipient to prove ownership of a Blockcert needing verification? https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/Using%20Verifiable%20Claims%20as%20a%20Proof%20of%20Ownership%20for%20Blockcerts.md

8/24/2019, 5:14:57 AM

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…the remainder of the paper specifies how this link between Blockcerts & DID/VCs can be accomplished, using a BTCR DID and some examples from our last BTCR hackathon as examples.

8/24/2019, 5:17:51 AM

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Christopher Allen

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This paper is not only a good example of something that could inform future specs, it is a prime candidate for coding a Proof of Concept during #RWOT9 — not all collaborative teams have to do a white paper, instead code is an equally good artifact of our work together.

8/24/2019, 5:20:33 AM

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Christopher Allen

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So this wraps another 6 topics reviewed for #RWOT9, another 39 to go. In the 11 so far you can see a good requisite variety of people that we have in the #RWOT community. Not only identity technologists & developers, but doctors, financial inclusion advocates, educators & more.

8/24/2019, 5:47:08 AM

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