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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Summary: Self-sovereign identity is multi-source, but not all multi-source identity systems are self-sovereign. Self-sovereign identity means the individual or organization controls and manages their identity. Self-sovereign identity represents a monumental shift in how identity functions on the Internet.

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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. Fortunately, someone reverse-engineered the Insteon protocol a while back and there are some open-source solutions for people who are able to run their own servers or know someone who can do it for them. Home Assistant is one.

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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-sovereign identity is more than decentralized identity.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) doesn't replace administrative identity systems, it give us another tool that enables better privacy, more flexible interactions, and increased autonomy. Tags: identity ssi tokens surveillance+capitalism relationships. Photo Credit: Tickets from Clint Hilbert (Pixabay).

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Phil Windley

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

SSI provides a foundation for self-sovereign digital memories to solve the digital-analog memory divide. This divide one source of the power imbalance between people and administrative entities (i.e. Tags: identity ssi relationships pseudonymity. Summary: Digital memories are an important component of our digital embodiment.

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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. Verifiable Credentials.

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Phil Windley

MAY 24, 2023

Summary: Federated identity stores are like music CDs: large troves of data to be consumed from a single source. Self-sovereign identity is like streaming: share just what you want, just when it's needed. The analog to streaming is decentralized or self-sovereign identity (SSI). In SSI the source of identity information (e.g.,

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Of course, the question is raised in an attempt to determine whether or not an identity system based on a permissioned ledger can make a legitimate claim that it's self-sovereign. The code is open source. Sovrin does not have "identity providers" because anyone can be the source of their own identity. There are no secret nodes.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 3, 2020

These and other complicated workflows are all supported by a standards-based, open-source, protocol-supporting system for secure, privacy-preserving messaging. In The Self-Sovereign Internet of Things , I introduced the role that Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) can play in the internet of things (IoT). Selling the Truck.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Our goal was to create a system of protocols, processes, technology and governance that would reduce the risk of self-sovereign identity and increase confidence in an identity system that let the subjects present verifiable credentials that carried reliable attributes from many sources.

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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. The record of the operations is the source of truth for the identity system. This grand bargain forms the basis for any society.

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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 Self-Sovereign Alternative. Figure 2: Self-Sovereign Identity Stack (click to enlarge).

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Summary: Decentralized identifiers are one of the foundational ideas for supporting self-sovereign identity. Decentralized identifiers are one of several foundational technologies for building a metasystem for self-sovereign identity. As noted above, DIDs are one of the foundational technologies of self-sovereign identity.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Multi-source identity (MSI) depends on issuing, exchanging, and verifying digital credentials. In multi-source identity, a particular credential is not intrinsically true. This is sometimes referred to as self-sovereign identity (SSI). Multi-source identity is composed of credentials from multiple sources.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 26, 2019

Self-sovereign identity (SSI) provides a model for how to put people at the center of their healthcare and allow them to correlate data where desirable without exposing their records to unwanted correlation by third parties. Hyperledger Indy and Aries are open source projects that support SSI. Photo Credit: Patient from PxHere (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 8, 2022

Open source software, the internet, and the World Wide Web broke the stranglehold of proprietary software with free software and open protocols, but within a few decades, Google, Amazon, and others had built huge new monopolies founded on big data. Self-sovereign identity (SSI) gives people the software and systems to do that.

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Phil Windley

JULY 26, 2018

This new type of digital identity, which I call a multi-source identity , is owned and controlled by the individual or organization, and is not accountable to or administered by any particular agency or other intermediary. No one can take away your digital identity on Sovrin.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 28, 2021

This kind of one-size-fits-all, single-source solution can solve the local problem, but when Alice is interacting with people and organizations outside Naruba, the problem is much harder: Naruba and Kunami may have adopted different technologies and schema for the credential representing the health pass. Building the Ecosystem.

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Phil Windley

JULY 26, 2021

Picos are hosted on the open-source pico engine. Picos are a natural building block for the self-sovereign internet of things (SSIoT) and can easily model necessary IoT relationship. If you're intrigued by the pico engine, the pico engine is an open source project licensed under a liberal MIT license.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

Sovrin's code is open source—specifically it is the Hyperledger Indy project under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Their decisions are governed in the way of most open source projects: rough consensus and running code with pull requests accepted by a core set of developers who manage the code base. Guardianship.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Sovrin's code is open source—specifically it is the Hyperledger Indy project under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation. Their decisions are governed in the way of most open source projects: rough consensus and running code with pull requests accepted by a core set of developers who manage the code base. Guardianship.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a self-sovereign, multi-source identity system , Sovrin is architected so that the identity owner is structurally part of exchanging verifiable credentials 1. As a multi-source identity system, Sovrin provides the means for each party in an identity transaction to play their role without the aid or assistance of an intermediary.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Sovrin comprises three layers, each of which promotes and strengthens decentralization and self-sovereign identity. Those three adjectives deserve some explanation: open —The Sovrin network is based on the open-source Hyperledger Indy project. Your digital identity is made from credentials from multiple sources.

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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. Self-sovereign identity needs to be robust. Decentralized Identifiers and Their Properties. DIDs resolve to DID Documents.

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

The most problematic word in the term Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) isn't "sovereign" but "identity" because whenever you start discussing identity, the conversation is rife with unspoken assumptions. What is the source of that data? Tags: sovrin ssi decentralized+identifiers identity relationships.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is sometimes referred to as self-sovereign identity (SSI). The open-source nature of the reference code base for the metasystem ensures that multiple parties can bring interoperable solutions to market. Photo Credit: Friends Celebration Dinner Table from Pixabay (CC0) Tags: sovrin life+like+identity identity metasystem.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 7, 2020

A few weeks ago Andy Tobin posted an excellent piece on the Three Pillars of Self-Sovereign Identity : Secure connections. SSI has similar needs and meeting them won't happen just because we define nice protocols and write some open source code. First, we focus on building awareness of and affinity for self-sovereign identity.

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