Phil Windley

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Summary: The latest revision of the Sovrin Governance Framework is aimed squarely at showing how the Sovrin identity metasystem is compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations. This is the key to global adoption of the identity metasystem that provides a universal trust framework for the Internet.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 19, 2019

There's no reason, of course, that Sovrin's identity metasystem can't serve as the basis for identity in Libra. Sovrin provides a flexible, open, and public metasystem that can easily serve as the foundation for the identity services a system like Libra would need to support financial inclusion without surveillance.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2019

Decentralization, in the form of an decentralized identity metasystem like Sovrin , allows us to build identity systems without intervening administrative authorities who can arbitrarily and at their sole discretion change the rules. Photo Credit: Handcuffs from pxhere (CC0) Tags: sovrin decentralization blockchain.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

DIDComm and its application protocols are one of the cornerstones of the SSI metasystem, giving rise to a protocological culture within the metasystem that is open , agentic , inclusive, flexible, modular, and universal. Tags: decentralized+identifiers didcomm protocol ssi identity credentials self-sovereign vrm me2b.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The identity metasystem is really a sophisticated messaging system that is trustworthy, secure, and extensible. I take the selfish view that as a sovereign actor in the identity metasystem, I want my things to be part of that same ecosystem. Summary: Self-sovereign identity offers much more than just better ways to log in.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Summary: An identity metasystem like the Sovrin Network provides the foundation for creating tens of millions of interoperable identity systems for every conceivable context and use. A metasystem is a system of systems. Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The Sovrin Identity Metasystem.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

I've written previously about identity metasystems that provide a framework for how identity transactions happen. Individual identity systems are built according to the architecture and protocols of the metasystem. Acceptance networks are an instantiation of the metasystem for a particular set of users and types of transactions.

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Phil Windley

MAY 28, 2021

SSI in the form of DIDs and verifiable credentials promise a global, interoperable data exchange metasystem that is cryptographically sound with an excellent user experience. Tags: ssi identity x.509 The resolution need not be global or public. For Peer DIDs, the resolution is local. They should. 509 pki decentralized+identifiers.

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Phil Windley

MAY 27, 2021

SSI in the form of DIDs and verifiable credentials promise a global, interoperable data exchange metasystem that is cryptographically sound with an excellent user experience. Tags: ssi identity x.509 The resolution need not be global or public. For Peer DIDs, the resolution is local. They should. 509 pki decentralized+identifiers.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials form an identity metasystem capable of being the foundation for any kind of relationship: ephemeral, pseudonymous, ad hoc, permanent, personal, commercial, legal, or anything else. For details on how this all works, see my Frontiers article on the identity metasystem.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Summary: Rather than being a DAO, the world is a gigantic metasystem that provides numerous tacit capabilities for action and interaction. So, while “Life is a DAO” makes a better t-shirt, I prefer “Life is a Metasystem.” Metasystems have some similarities to distributed autonomous organizations, but offer someting more.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. By creating a general-purpose system for constructing context-specific identity systems, the metasystem represents a universal trust framework. An Identity Metasystem. The universal identity metasystem must not be another monolith.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

These benefits are delivered using an architecture that provides a common, interoperable layer, called the identity metasystem , upon with anyone can build the identity systems they need. An identity metasystem is a prerequisite for an online world where identity is as natural as it is in the physical world. Who issued the credential?

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 12, 2020

Summary: Self-sovereign identity, supported by a heterarchical identity metasystem, creates a firm foundation for rich digital relationships that allow people to digitally embodied so they can act online as autonomous agents. The features of the metasystem architecture are our primary interest.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 30, 2020

On the other hand, an identity metasystem can provide an alternative to monument credentials in many situations. The Sovrin identity metasystem can provide for both LESS Identity (monument credentials) and Trustless Identity (tapestry credentials). Tags: sovrin identity identity+for+all credentials privacy.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2019

Summary: In this post, I make a case that Sovrin not only conforms to Kim Cameron's Seven Laws of Identity, but constitutes the identity metasystem he envisioned in 2004. An Identity Metasystem. Kim's answer is not a new identity system, but rather an identity metasystem. emphasis in original). User Control and Consent.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Decentralized identifiers are one of several foundational technologies for building a metasystem for self-sovereign identity. DIDs and the Identity Metasystem. In The Laws of Identity , I make the case for Sovrin being an identity metasystem—a universal foundation upon which other identity systems can be built.

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Phil Windley

JULY 1, 2019

A consistent user experience is, in Kim Cameron's view , a fundamental feature of an identity metasystem. Other identity systems and protocols will continue to exist and interface to the identity metasystem. The Sovrin identity metasystem gives rise to a universal trust framework that will impact almost every aspect of digital life.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 10, 2020

Sovrin provides an identity metasystem that provides a univeral trust framework for building identity systems that can serve as the foundation for creating markets without intermediaries. Tags: sovrin identity trust platform vrm. A better response is to create systems that don't require an intermediary.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 24, 2020

I'm hopeful that as we work more on interoperability that the implementation differences will fade away so that we have a single identity metasystem where participants have choice about tools and vendors. Tags: identity ssi self-sovereign credentials. This is not to say I don't have opinions on what those words mean is this context.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

Together, these protocols work on top of the the self-sovereign internet to give rise to self-sovereign identity through a global identity metasystem. The identity metasystem has the same three virtues of the Internet that Doc Searls and Dave Weinberger enumerated as NEA: N o one owns it, E veryone can use it, and A nyone can improve it.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 13, 2020

Summary: The Sovrin Identity Metasystem is based on a sophisticated stack of protocols, implemented in open-source code, backed and supported by hundreds of organizations, large and small, around the world. This post describes how the metasystem is implemented by the Sovrin SSI Stack. Tags: sovrin identity credentials.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The identity metasystem I've written about in the past is composed of several layers that provide its unique functionality. Tags: generative internet identity ssi didcomm decentralized+identifiers self-sovereign+internet. by Daniel Hardman. Photo Credit: Seed Germination from USDA (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

We created the Sovrin Foundation to foster a thriving ecosystem for an identity metasystem. But, a functional identity metasystem needs more than just technical standards. In particular, trust, the reason for an identity metasystem, can't exist without credential fidelity and provenance. Digital data “watermarking” 1.

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