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

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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MARCH 30, 2020

Monument credentials are the foundational documents upon which most of us build our formal identity, things like birth certificates, property titles, and passports. The Sovrin identity metasystem can provide for both LESS Identity (monument credentials) and Trustless Identity (tapestry credentials). in a coma).

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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

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 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

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

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

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

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Acceptance networks are foundational components of modern payment ecosystems and are essential to the seamless functioning of digital financial transactions. When we launched Sovrin Foundation and the Sovrin network 1 in 2016, we were building an acceptance network for digital identity, even though we didn't use that term to describe it.

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Phil Windley

MAY 24, 2022

One of the things we tried to do at Sovrin Foundation was live true to the tagline: Identity for All. For example, many of the participants in the Foundation worked on initiatives like financial inclusion and guardianship to ensure the systems we were building and promoting worked for everyone.

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Phil Windley

JULY 14, 2018

Aadhaar serves as a foundation for many other digital systems in India, including food ration distribution, healthcare, and finance. You might have a Sovrin-based relationship with your bank. They could provide a Sovrin credential stating you're a customer and maintain a certain balance.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 2, 2020

But I left out things because I hadn't yet provided a foundational discussion of DIDComm-enabled digital relationships that's necessary to really understand how SSI can transform IoT. The Sovrin Foundation has an IoT working group that recently released a whitepaper on Self-Sovereign Identity and IoT.

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Phil Windley

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Locke’s theory of mind forms the foundation for our modern ideas about identity and independence. A root of trust is a foundational component or process in the identity system that is relied on by other components of the system and whose failure would compromise the integrity of the bindings. Self-Certifying.

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Phil Windley

AUGUST 20, 2019

Summary: Sovrin is an identity metasystem that provides the Internet's missing identity layer. Protocols are the foundation of interoperability and allow for scale. Figure 1: The Sovrin SSI Stack (click to enlarge). Imagine you are planning to meet a friend for lunch.

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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. Protocols are the foundation of interoperability and allow for scale.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Summary: Verifiable credential exchange is the foundation of decentralized, online identity. Tags: sovrin credentials identity decentralization. This post describes how it works. I realized last week that I'd never explained verifiable credential exchange as a stand-alone topic—it was always buried in something else.

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Phil Windley

JANUARY 26, 2021

One example of the capacity of credential exchange for leverage is to consider that it could be the foundation for a system that disintermediates platform companies like Uber, AirBnB, and the food delivery platforms. guardianship and delegation credentials), legal foundations (e.g., guardianship contracts), and business drivers (e.g.,

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Phil Windley

JULY 16, 2020

Consequently, all identity systems manage relationship integrity as a foundational capability. Unneeded, long-lived relationships are the foundation of the surveillance economy that has come to define the modern online experience. Doing this, and doing it well is the foundation of the modern web. Relationship Integrity.

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