2005 Authentication Internet Network 
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.
Phil Windley
JUNE 14, 2021
I spoke on DIDComm and the Self-Sovereign Internet. If you're not up to speed with DIDComm and how it creates a secure overlay network on TCP/IP, you should be. The foundation of the self-sovereign internet is built on autonomic identifiers. Alice) who, by virtue of knowing the authentication factors (e.g.
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GeekWire
JUNE 2, 2020
Dick Hardt has often been “early to the new,” as he puts it: Microsoft Windows in 1986, neural networks in 1989, the internet in 1993, open source in 1995, and even Burning Man in 1999. “The internet does not have an identity layer,” said Hardt, our latest Geek of the Week. back in 2005.
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. Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. I've spoken about the Sovrin Network as an identity metasystem before.
Network World
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
Those of us who’ve been around security technology for a while will remember the prodigious rise of network access control (NAC) around 2006. In 2006, wireless networking based upon 802.11 was transforming from a novelty to the preferred technology for network access. A wave of internet worms.
Phil Windley
AUGUST 20, 2019
Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. Digital identity is broken because the Internet was built without an identity layer. The idea was made famous by a New Yorker cartoon that says, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”. The Problems with Digital Identity.
Trends in the Living Networks
FEBRUARY 6, 2008
So-called Internet-porn addiction already is straining some relationships, and it will be interesting to see how future technologies will impact our definitions of virginity, celibacy, adultery and the like. Will this get worse in the future? It certainly seems so. Some of this will be pure fantasy.
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