* [New article about decentralized protocols to rule the world...](https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Dec/0105.html)
* [Great Protocol Politics](https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/12/11/bitcoin-ethereum-cryptocurrency-web3-great-protocol-politics/)- The 21st century doesn’t belong to China, the United States, or Silicon Valley. It belongs to the internet.
> Torgapis theBlockchain Commonssecurity and privacy architecture model for creating gaps between connected apps and microservices. It supports privacy, service anonymity, identity psuedonymity, non-correlation, censorship-resistance, and seperation-of-interests and reduces single-points-of-failure. This emerging architecture is supported by QuickConnect and Blockchain Commons' Gordian system, while our Airgapped Wallet community and our research papers are charting its future.
* [Selected Parts of the DIF SDS/CS Hub and EDV Discussion featuring Daniel Buchner’s Description of a Hub](https://hyperonomy.com/2021/03/24/transcription-of-selected-parts-of-the-dif-sds-cs-march-11-2021-zoom-call-hub-and-edv-discussion-featuring-daniel-buchners-description-of-a-hub/)Michael Herman
> This is a [transcription of selected parts of the EDV-Hub conversation](https://hyperonomy.com/2021/03/24/transcription-of-selected-parts-of-the-dif-sds-cs-march-11-2021-zoom-call-hub-and-edv-discussion-featuring-daniel-buchners-description-of-a-hub/)during the DIF SDS/CS Thursday weekly Zoom call on March 11, 2021. This is the call where Daniel Buchner described (verbally) several aspects about what is and what is not a Hub.
* [Decoding the Sidetree Protocol](https://academy.affinidi.com/decoding-the-sidetree-protocol-18d8bfa39257)Affinidi
> Sidetree protocols are layer 2 protocols that anchor to the underlying decentralized ledger system. That said, it is ledger agnostic and its primary role is to anchor batches of signed JSON operations to the network.
* [WHiSSPR- Human transparency over identity and surveillance risk](https://iiw.idcommons.net/23E/_WHiSSPR-_Human_transparency_over_identity_and_surveillance_risk)by Sal D’Agostino
* [Building ActivityPub into Known](https://werd.io/2021/building-activitypub-into-known)Ben Werdmüller
* [Known](https://withknown.com/)has supported [Indieweb](https://indieweb.org/)standards since the beginning, but Fediverse has been notably missing. I think that’s a big omission, but also not something I’ve had bandwidth to fix.
* [ActivityPub support · Issue #2615 · idno/known · GitHub](https://github.com/idno/known/issues/2615%23issuecomment-991335313)
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* [Implement Client Credentials with Kong Konnect and Okta](https://developer.okta.com/blog/2021/05/25/client-credentials-kong-konnect)
> The OIDC plugin enables Kong, as the API gateway, to communicate with Okta via the OAuth/OIDC flows.
* [ION – We Have Liftoff!](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/identity-standards-blog/ion-we-have-liftoff/ba-p/1441555)
> We are excited to share that v1 of [ION](https://identity.foundation/ion/)is complete and has been launched on Bitcoin mainnet. We have deployed an ION node to our production infrastructure and are working together with other companies and organizations to do so as well. ION does not rely on centralized entities, trusted validators, or special protocol tokens – ION answers to no one but you, the community. Because ION is an open, permissionless system, anyone can run an ION node, in fact the more nodes in operation, the stronger the network becomes. Development of ION, and the Sidetree standard ION is based on, takes place in the [Decentralized Identity Foundation](https://identity.foundation/)(DIF). Read on to learn how you can integrate ION, DIDs, and Verifiable Credentials in your applications and services.
> This week, the DIF Steering Committee officially approved the first major release of the Sidetree Protocol specification, "v1" so to speak. This protocol has already been implemented, and four of its implementers have been collaborating intensively for over a year on expanding and extending this specification together.
> Based on the March 11 Zoom discussion where we worked hard to discern the differences between Agents, Hubs, and EDVs (and I believe were largely successful IMO), I’ve like to propose to the SDS/CS WG that we refactor the current Confidential Storage specification into 3 separable parts/specifications.
## Identity Not SSI
* [A Universal Resolver for self-sovereign identifiers](https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/a-universal-resolver-for-self-sovereign-identifiers-48e6b4a5cc3c)
* [On any blockchain or other decentralized system](https://medium.com/decentralized-identity/a-universal-resolver-for-self-sovereign-identifiers-48e6b4a5cc3c) (Markus Sabadello)
> This is a first step in fulfilling DIF’s mission to help individuals and organizations to control their digital identity, without being dependent on any intermediary party.
>
> This tool fulfills a similar purpose as Bind does in the DNS system: resolution of identifiers. However, instead of working with domain names, we work with self-sovereign identifiers that can be created and registered directly by the entities they refer to.
> ION makes it possible to anchor tens of thousands of DID/DPKI operations on a target chain (in ION's case, Bitcoin) using a single on-chain transaction. The transactions are encoded with a hash that ION nodes use to fetch, store, and replicate the hash-associated DID operation batches via IPFS.
