Phil Windley

MARCH 7, 2023

Other topics include the relationship between DIDComm and identity, how self-sovereign identity relates to IoT, and the relationship between trust, confidence, and governance. Tags: ldid podcast identity ssi We also talked about Kim Cameron's Laws of Identity and how they help analyze identity systems and their features.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 14, 2021

I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. Autonomic identity systems rely solely on self-sovereign authority. I have made the case elsewhere that the self-sovereign internet meets Zittrain's criteria for generativity.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 9, 2021

That's the promise of verifiable credentials and self-sovereign identity. And we demonstrated way back in 2009 a way to augment results from a web site with a self-sovereign data store. Tags: identity ssi privacy relationships. But what if I could get that convenience without any kind of account at Amazon at all?

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Summary: Self-sovereign identity offers much more than just better ways to log in. I've been contemplating a self-sovereign internet of things (SSIoT) for over a decade. But in a Self-Sovereign Internet of Things, Alice controls the policies on that relationship and thus what is shared. Updating Firmware.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

First a few definitions: Sovrin Foundation —The Sovrin Foundation is an international non-profit organization supporting self-sovereign identity through a global, decentralized network. Even though Sovrin is only a few years old, this ecosystem is making great progress toward making self-sovereign identity a reality.

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Phil Windley

MAY 6, 2019

One thing that stood out to me is the impact self-sovereign identity is having. This is a big development in the world of self-sovereign identity, demonstrating the reality of data exchange that is credential-based, secure, and private. Tags: iiw sovrin indy hyperledger picos self-sovereign.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 25, 2018

Summary: In July I'll be circling the globe to talk about self-sovereign identity and learn about how others are approaching and using it. The first half of July I'm going to be on the road speaking about self-sovereign identity in Switzerland and at two events in India. Tags: identity sovrin india.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Information cards didn't make it, but the ideas underlying information cards live on in modern self-sovereign identity (SSI) systems. Tags: identity ux wallets ssi. Information cards worked on a protocol-mediated identity metasystem so that anyone could use them and write software for them.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Summary: For Sovrin to become a global, public utility that helps everyone create and manage self-sovereign identities, it must be independent and self-sustaining. For Sovrin to achieve its goal of providing self-sovereign identity for all, the Foundation and the Network have to be independent and self-sustaining.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 9, 2018

Summary: CryptoKitties are a useful example of digital ownership and self-sovereignty. That's the idea of self-sovereignty. When we say a nation is sovereign, we mean that it can act as a peer to other sovereign states, not that it can do whatever it wants. Late last year CryptoKitties burst into the blockchain world.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Self-sovereignty is the only path to autonomy and agency. Soon, my cloud problem will be in the past and my blog will be self-sovereign. Tags: blogging flickr perl. Summary: The cloud is a fickle place that gives and takes. Sometime in 2011, I decided to use Flickr to host the images on my blog.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 4, 2024

That's why I insist on using the term self-sovereign rather than decentralized to describe these systems. Photo Credit: Playing Kerplunk from DALL-E (public domain) Prompt: Draw a picture of a boy and girl playing kerplunk that's 1200x500 pixels Tags: web identity authentication authorization verifiable+credentials

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Phil Windley

JULY 14, 2018

Summary: I spent almost two weeks talking with people about self-sovereign identity in Switzerland and India. I'm more excouraged than ever that self-sovereign identity holds the key to real change in how we live our digital lives with security, privacy, and dignity. Self-sovereign identity is making noise.

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Phil Windley

MAY 11, 2021

Serendipitously, Manny came across self-sovereign identity (SSI) at the same time and, as I said, spoke at the launch of Sovrin Foundation. And his journey into self-sovereign identity commenced. Tags: ssi identity use+cases verifiable+credentials healthcare. But he saw the problems with that.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Moreover, in sectors like healthcare and finance, where personal agents are entrusted with sensitive tasks, a trustworthy, robust, self-sovereign identity ensures that these agents act in harmony with our real-world selves, maintaining the integrity and privacy of our personal data.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Sovrin Foundation is much more than an advocacy organization for self-sovereign identity. Hiring a CTO represents a big step along the path to self sustainability for the Sovrin network. A huge part of being self sustaining is technical independence. Tags: sovrin cto announcements.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 7, 2021

My work in self-sovereign identity began with credit unions. Early on, a few intrepid people in the credit union industry recognized that self-sovereign identity (SSI) offered a way out of this mess. Self-enrollment is possible within the authenticated context of the credit union's web site. It's hard to tell.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 16, 2018

These two steps pave the way to establish a global public utility for self-sovereign identity—lifetime portable digital identity that does not depend on any central authority and can never be taken away. Tags: sovrin identity whitepaper verifiable+claims sovrin+token. I hope you'll spend some time reading it.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 20, 2023

In self-sovereign identity (SSI), the tools that support that are wallets and agents. Photo Credit: Creditor's Ledger, Holmes McDougall from Edinburgh City of Print ( CC BY 2.0 ) Tags: identity accounts ssi fido authentication For people, these will be personal.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 3, 2017

Sovrin provides a global identity infrastructure that supports self-sovereign identity and verifiable claims. Sovrin provides a global identity infrastructure that supports self-sovereign identity and verifiable claims. Tags: sovrin diffuse+trust decentralization. This is the beginning of Identity for All.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 25, 2022

Ultimately, we need to look to self-sovereign identity protects us from intermediating administrative identity systems and their harms. Tags: identity biometrics authentication irs egovernment verifiable+credentials ssi. Alas, we're not there yet, so we'll need companies like ID.me and Onfido to bridge the gap for now.

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Recently, I've been making the case for self-sovereign identity and why it is the correct architecture for online identity systems. These autonomic relationships are self-certifying meaning they don't rely on any third party for their trust basis. Photo Credit: Red leather wallet on white paper from Pikrepo (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2019

That's why we call it self-sovereign identity. Photo Credit: Handcuffs from pxhere (CC0) Tags: sovrin decentralization blockchain. This is just as true about identity as it is about the Internet of Things. I feel like I'm relatively autonomous, but obviously I'm subject to the laws of the country I live in.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 1, 2023

There is also an emerging Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) metasystem based on DIDs and verifiable credentials. Tags: identity ssi The SL metasystem is supported by OpenID Connect and the various "login in with." identity providers. The SL metasystem is widely used and has provided significant value to the online world.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Summary: The self-sovereign internet, a secure overlay on the internet, provides the same capacity to produce change by numerous, unaffiliated and uncoordinated actors as the internet itself. This article explores the properties of the self-sovereign internet and makes the case that they justify its generativity claims.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Our claim is that self-sovereign identity, and Sovrin in particular, solve these five problems: The Proximity Problem —The proximity problem is as old as the familiar cartoon with the caption "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Most physical world identity transactions are self-sovereign.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 18, 2022

Summary: I read a couple of interesting things the past few weeks that have me thinking about the world we're building, the impact that tech has on it, and how it self-governs (or not). Tags: web3 the+stack ssi bitcoin sovereign. Here's his insight on the heterarchical relationship between markets and states. [O]ne

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 29, 2018

Multi-source identity becomes self-sovereign identity when the individual is able to control those assertions and use them in a privacy-preserving manner whenever and where ever they want. Tags: sovrin identity sovrin+use+cases connected+car.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 18, 2024

Relationships and Identity Authentic Digital Relationships Ephemeral Relationships Operationalizing Digital Relationships Relationships in the Self-Sovereign Internet of Things The Architecture of Identity Systems Are Transactional Relationships Enough? These are more than decentralized ; they are self-sovereign.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Locke argued that "sovereign and independent" was man’s natural state and that we gave up freedom, our sovereignty, in exchange for something else, protection, sociality, and commerce, among others. Self-Certifying. Both algorithmic and self-certifying are SSI systems. Self-Certifying Architecture. Identity Architectures.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 10, 2020

Summary: Sovereign is the right word for describing the essential distinction between our inalienable self and the administrative identifiers and attributes others assign to us online. We are self-sovereign. Some shrink from the self-sovereign label. Self-sovereignty requires some explanation.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure.

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Phil Windley

JULY 1, 2019

Summary: Identity professionals continue to have questions about self-sovereign identy (SSI). In Self-sovereign identity: 3 key questions (registration required), Susan Morrow asks some questions about the viability of self-sovereign identity (SSI). I actually found more than three. Here's some answers.

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Phil Windley

APRIL 25, 2022

We need a new, self-sovereign model to protect us from proprietary solutions and unlock IoT's real potential. The alternative is what I call the self-sovereign IoT (SSIoT) model : Self-Sovereign IoT Model (click to enlarge). But the ultimate answer is interoperability and self-sovereignty as the default.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 21, 2021

Summary: The self-sovereign internet underscores a tension between those who desire perfect oversight of society and those who desire perfect privacy. In Self-Sovereign Communication , Oskar Van Deventer, discusses the communications layer enabled by DIDs. Tags: identity ssi didcomm privacy cryptography.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Summary: Self-sovereign identity is multi-source, but not all multi-source identity systems are self-sovereign. Self-sovereignty requires that people and organizations have control of their credentials and interact as peers. The world is full of credentials.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 24, 2020

SSI, stands for self-sovereign identity, but that's not really helpful since people have different ideas about what "sovereign" means and what "identity" means. I've written about "sovereign" in On Sovereignty and Self Sovereign is Not Self Asserted.

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