Phil Windley

JUNE 19, 2019

As Chair of the Sovrin Foundation, I've had a lot of people ask my opinion on Libra. I have no evidence that Sovrin Foundation served as a model in any way, but that choice is aligned with the governance model we've pioneered with the Sovrin Governance Framework. Third, portable, digital identity exists now in Sovrin.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 1, 2019

From time to time, I run across the idea that self-sovereign identity (SSI) systems like Sovrin are necessarily self-asserted. Sovrin is an identity metsystem based on the exchange of verifiable credentials. In Sovrin, people hold numerous credentials from a variety of issuers , just like we do in the physical world.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 25, 2020

Summary: Sovrin credentials can give assurances of safety during the present Covid-19 crisis and help jump start economies when it's over. Credentials based on Sovrin would protect individual privacy and autonomy while also ensuring credential fidelity. And the best news is that it can be built on Sovrin, right now.

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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. The Sovrin SSI Stack (click to enlarge).

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Phil Windley

JUNE 23, 2017

Summary: The Sovrin Network is live and undergoing testing. Sovrin is based on a permissioned distributed ledger. Individual nodes are run by organizations called "Sovrin Stewards.". In the case of Sovrin, that is the Sovrin Foundation. The nodes are governed according to the Sovrin Trust Framework.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 3, 2017

Summary: The Sovrin network for identity is now live and accepting transactions. Sovrin provides a global identity infrastructure that supports self-sovereign identity and verifiable claims. This morning I participated in the launch of the Sovrin Network. I'm very excited to see Sovrin become a reality. By the Numbers.

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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. This is an excellent description of Sovrin. Sovrin is not a company or an identity provider. In Sovrin, credentials are issued to identity owners.

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Phil Windley

JULY 1, 2019

The Sovrin network anticipates these use cases because to not support them discourages adoption and limits use cases. Bottom line: Sovrin hasn't seen lack of commercial use cases or business models as a problem over the last three years. One of the reasons I got involved in Sovrin 3.5 In fact, just the opposite. It's hopeless?

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Phil Windley

JUNE 10, 2020

Summary: We need to replace platforms that intermediate transactions with protocols built on a universal trust framework like Sovrin to avoid a future of hostage taking and retaliatory regulations. When Sovrin has a token it can even facilitate the transaction. Tags: sovrin identity trust platform vrm.

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Phil Windley

MAY 30, 2018

Summary: Multi-source identity systems like Sovrin enabled richer digital identity transactions that mirror the decentralized, ad hoc nature of identity in the physical world. At Sovrin we're changing that. Sovrin doesn't give you an identity—we're not an identity provider.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Summary: Hiring a full time CTO is a big step for the Sovrin Foundation. The Sovrin Foundation is excited to announce that we have hired of Nathan George as our Chief Technology Officer. He has been instrumental in maintaining the Hyperledger open-source Project Indy, which is sponsored by the Sovrin Foundation.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Summary: To determine whether Sovrin is decentralized, we have to ask questions about the purpose of decentralization and how Sovrin supports those purposes. People sometimes ask "Is Sovrin decentralized?" So, rather than asking "Is Sovrin decentralized?", Is Sovrin Resilient to Common Mode Failures?

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Phil Windley

JULY 8, 2017

Summary: The Sovrin Trust Framework is nothing less that the constitution of the Sovrin Network. This post gives details about what the Sovrin Trust Framework is and why it's so important. Last week, the Sovrin Foundation Board of Trustees voted unanimously to approve the Sovrin Provisional Trust Framework (PTF).

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Phil Windley

APRIL 25, 2018

My interest in coherence is driven by efforts to create a global, public, decentralized identity system that we call Sovrin. Sovrin is an identity network that, like the Internet, achives coherence through a combination of institutional, market-driven, and network-enabled forces. I think of Sovrin as the Internet for Identity.

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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. This post outlines four idependence milestopnes for Sovrin Foundation. The Sovrin Foundation began life about a year ago.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 3, 2018

This post describes the governance of the Sovrin network. Our approach is a constitutional model based on an agreement we call the Sovrin Turst Framework that informs and guides everything from code development to the responsibilities of the various actors in the system. The Sovrin blockchain is a good example.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Summary: Sovrin is more than a ledger and its claim to being a decentralized identity system rests on more than that. Sovrin comprises three layers, each of which promotes and strengthens decentralization and self-sovereign identity. Sovrin is a hybrid ledger. Is Sovrin Decentralized? The Sovrin Foundation (Jul 2018).

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Phil Windley

JULY 26, 2018

Summary: This article describes the role that the Sovrin Foundation and associated groups play in governing, operating, and using the Sovrin Network. The Sovrin Network is designed and intended to be decentralized so understanding the key influence points and community groups is important.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 4, 2019

This capability requires the use of a DID Messaging protocol like the one found in the open-source Hyperledger Aries codebase 1 that forms the basis for peer-to-peer interactions in the Sovrin network. As I mentioned, the Streetcred ID digital wallet supports peer-to-peer messaging through Sovrin P2P agents. DID Messaging.

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Phil Windley

MAY 11, 2020

Sovrin Network is based on Hyperledger Indy. In Sovrin, this idea is called "Network of Networks" and it has many proponents. To understand that better, let's look at the Sovrin SSI Stack. The Sovrin SSI Stack (click to enlarge). Consequently, Sovrin supports a Network of Networks model. This post explore why.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

This post describes the governance of the Sovrin network. Our approach is a constitutional model based on an agreement we call the Sovrin Turst Framework that informs and guides everything from code development to the responsibilities of the various actors in the system. The Sovrin blockchain is a good example.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 26, 2018

Sovrin Foundation provides a structure and supporting systems for groups defining trust frameworks. In Decentralized Governance in Sovrin , I described how the Sovrin Network is governed. The centerpiece of that discussion is the Sovrin Trust Framework. Suppose your employer is using Sovrin.

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Phil Windley

MAY 6, 2020

Sovrin Network is based on Hyperledger Indy. In Sovrin, this idea is called "Network of Networks" and it has many proponents. To understand that better, let's look at the Sovrin SSI Stack. The Sovrin SSI Stack (click to enlarge). Consequently, Sovrin supports a network of networks model. This post explore why.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 30, 2020

The Sovrin identity metasystem can provide for both LESS Identity (monument credentials) and Trustless Identity (tapestry credentials). We've spent considerable time on the legal and technical architectures necessary to support guardianship in Sovrin. Tags: sovrin identity identity+for+all credentials privacy. in a coma).

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Summary: Sovrin capitalizes on decades of cryptographic research and the now widespread availability of decentralized ledger technology to rethink identity solutions so that we can have scalable, flexible, private interactions with consent despite the issues that distance introduces. The Sovrin Architecture.

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Phil Windley

JUNE 26, 2019

Sovrin is a project that makes it real and usable. Tags: identity healthcare sovrin hyperledger. 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.

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Phil Windley

JULY 28, 2017

Sovrin provides a Web of Trust model for securing the Internet of Things that increases security and availability while giving device owners more control. Sovrin provides a way to use cryptography to establish trust without a hierarchical public key infrastructure. Sovrin is provides that. Not bad stuff as far as it goes.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 29, 2018

Creating an identity system that is flexible enough to support the various ad hoc scenarios that the world presents us with can only be done using a decentralized system like Sovrin that allows multiple credentials from various authorities to be shared in the ways the scenario demands. Alice would control her credentials and Bob his.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The DIDs for Hyperledger's Indy Project (and consequently the Sovrin network ) are derived from, and thus uniquely associated with, a public-private key pair. We will also be working on integrating the Sovrin network with the pico engine. Tags: picos dids identity cryptograph sovrin.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 21, 2020

Tags: sovrin identity decentralization passport. They're rented and so can't be permanent. The story on doublewide.net is interesting history, but the domain was impermanent. Thankfully, places like the Wayback Machine preserve some of it.

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Phil Windley

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

For example, the did:sov method outlines how to create, lookup, and update the DID on the Sovrin ledger. Sovrin supports public DIDs, written to the ledger and resolvable by all—omnidirectional identifiers. Private DIDs are critical infrastructure for a key part of the Sovrin architecture: peer relationships.

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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. The Sovrin Identity Metasystem. The Sovrin Identity Metasystem. I've spoken about the Sovrin Network as an identity metasystem before.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Sovrin is built to use non-correlatable identifiers by default while still providing all the necessary functionality we expect from an identity system. If you're interested in exploring the details, I invite you to look at Sovrin , a decentralized, public, global identity system built to support non-correlatable identifiers by default.

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Phil Windley

MAY 11, 2021

I first met Manny at the launch of Sovrin Foundation in London in September 2016. Serendipitously, Manny came across self-sovereign identity (SSI) at the same time and, as I said, spoke at the launch of Sovrin Foundation. Tags: ssi identity use+cases verifiable+credentials healthcare.

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Phil Windley

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Tags: sovrin identity trust fidelity metasystem. The fidelity provided by the identity metasystem, combined with the credential provenance provided by the context-specific identity system operating on top of it provide the basis for trusting the information that the holder has conveyed through credential exchange.

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Phil Windley

MAY 6, 2019

Tags: iiw sovrin indy hyperledger picos self-sovereign. You can read the proceedings of past Internet Identity Workshops on the IIW website. Photo Credit: Liftoff of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA's TESS spacecraft. from NASA TV (CC0).

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Phil Windley

JUNE 25, 2018

Tags: identity sovrin india. If you're going to be at one of these events, please look me up. I'd love to meet you and talk identity. Photo Credit: Aadhaar Enrollment Drive from Ravishyam Bangalore (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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