>A good self‐sovereign identity system will allow individuals to directly influence how companies, governments, and others correlate our interactions across different services and locations by default. It won’t fix all identity problems nor preclude alternative identity approaches, but it will put the individual in control of most uses of identity and give organizations a simpler, easier, more ethical way to use identity to improve how they provide services and products. When successful, it will not only enable individuals to exercise greater control over how companies and governments keep track of us, it will also illuminate those situations where self‐sovereign identity is restricted, facilitating a conversation about when and where such limits are appropriate. [Joe Andrieu -A Technology‐Free Definition of Self‐Sovereign Identity](https://github.com/jandrieu/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/a-technology-free-definition-of-self-sovereign-identity.pdf)
I'm getting to know the minimal-mistakes theme over at [SourceCrypto](https://infominer.id/SourceCrypto). This theme is excellent and beautiful, but it has proprietary code, where [minimal-mistakes](https://mademistakes.com/work/minimal-mistakes-jekyll-theme/) is quite versitile and open-source. Once I get the hang of it, then I'll set it up here. As this site is pretty well set up, as it is, I don't want to mess with it until I really know what I'm doing.
• [[**ϟ**](#contents)] related resource • [[**>**](#contents)] related section • [[**>>**](#contents)] another page on site. • [[**^**](#contents)] back to the contents.
* [What is Decentralized ID?](#what-is-decentralized-id-)
That's a big question, and what follows are just some notes, until I work out a more thoughtful answer.
The essence of Decentralized-ID is in creating open standards for a privacy preserving internet-wide identity layer — not owned by any one particular organization, but interoperable between all.
It's impossible to have a conversation about decentralized-id without discussing blockchain and self sovereign identity:
* Self Sovereign Identity principles (with some help from the GDPR) have helped to shape the narrative around putting the identity owner in control over their personal information.
* Blockchain fueled longstanding efforts to create a privacy preserving internet-wide identity protocol, and inspired development of decentralized networks for online identification.
* The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have also helped to fueled efforts for a global and widely accessible identity solution.
## Decentralized Identity History [**^**](#contents)
* [Losing Control over our Personal Information >>](history.md#losing-control-over-our-personal-information) '80s
* [PGP - Web of Trust >>](#pgp---web-of-trust-) '91
* [ID2020 and the GDPR >>](history.md#id2020-and-the-gdpr-) '16
* [The End of 2016 >>](history.md#the-end-of-2016-)
* [Decentralized Identity Foundation >>](history.md#decentralized-identity-foundation-) '17
* [Standards History >>](history.md#standards-history-)
* [Resources >>](history.md#resources-)
## Self Sovereign Identity [**^**](#contents)
* [Christopher Allen](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/)[[**info**](https://christophera.info/)] details the overarching history of internet idenitity standards and outlines [10 Principles of Self Sovereign Identity](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/self-sovereign-identity/blob/master/self-sovereign-identity-principles.md) in his seminal work [The Path to Self-Soverereign Identity](http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2016/04/the-path-to-self-soverereign-identity.html)[[**ϟ**](https://www.coindesk.com/path-self-sovereign-identity/amp/)]
*<ahref="https://github.com/jandrieu/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/raw/master/topics-and-advance-readings/a-technology-free-definition-of-self-sovereign-identity.pdf"><u>A Technlogy-Free Definition of Self-Sovereign Identity</u></a> is a continuation of the discussion started by Allen, offering 3 "Core Characteristics of Sovereign Identity".
* [7 Myths of Self Sovereign Identity](https://medium.com/evernym/7-myths-of-self-sovereign-identity-67aea7416b1)
* [Inevitable Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity](https://sovrin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/The-Inevitable-Rise-of-Self-Sovereign-Identity.pdf)
\- SSI Meetup is an open, collaborative community to help SSI evangelists around the world, independent of company interests or standards.
* [SSI: A Roadmap for Adoption](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/final-documents/a-roadmap-for-ssi.md)
* **[/DIDecentralized/self-sovereign-identity](self-sovereign-identity)** SSI documentation is still under development. This directory is to organize existing thought on SSI in one place for ease of study, and the development of new documentation.
* [Matching Identity Management Solutions to Self Sovereign Identity Solutions](https://www.slideshare.net/TommyKoens/matching-identity-management-solutions-to-selfsovereign-identity-principles)
<blockquoteclass="twitter-tweet"data-lang="en"><plang="en"dir="ltr">0/ “Self-Sovereign Identity: A Progress Report”…</p>— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) <ahref="https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/989120215702261761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
* [World Wide Web Consortium(W3C)](https://www.w3.org/) [[**T**](https://twitter.com/w3c)] [[**G**](https://github.com/w3c)]
>The [World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)](https://www.w3.org/Consortium/) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor and Director Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
*<ahref="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vc-wg/"target="_blank">Verifiable Claims WG - Mailing List</a> (and archives)
* [Credentials Community Group](https://www.w3.org/community/credentials/)[[**B**](https://w3c-ccg.github.io/)]
*<ahref="http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/"target="_blank">Public mailing list for the Credentials Community Group</a> (and archives) - Anyone may read or write to this list.
*<ahref="https://sea-region.github.com/w3c-dvcg/w3c-dvcg.github.io"target="_blank">/w3c-dvcg/w3c-dvcg.github.io</a> - Landing site for W3C Digital Verification Community Group. [<ahref="https://www.w3.org/community/digital-verification/">**W**</a>]
<sup><ahref="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RllH91rcFdE">The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org</a>[<b><ahref="https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/self-sovereign-identity-ssi-open-standards-with-drummond-reed">ϟ</a></b>]</sup>
#### DID the Decentralized Identifier [**^**](#contents)
> A DID architecture should focus on the set of components that Mr. Gupta refers to as "the minimum required for people to be able to do business (or other critical functions) together".
>
>**A Decentralized Identifier (DID) Registry and Discovery Service**
>
> This "minimum required" is defined by a union of the proposed requirements identified by the W3C Credential Community Group, the XDI.org Registry Working Group, and the Rebooting the Web of Trust group. It consists of three functions that can be addressed by a combination of blockchain and DHT technology:
>
> * A DID registration function
> * A discovery function that enables looking up a registered DID in the blockchain
* [Verifiable Claims Working Group](https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/WG/) [[**D**](https://www.w3.org/2017/vc/charter.html)]
* [Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0](https://w3c.github.io/vc-data-model/) [[**G**](https://github.com/w3c/vc-data-model)] [[**D**](https://w3c.github.io/vc-use-cases/)]
* [DID Auth and the Little I-am-Me](https://medium.com/@markus.sabadello/did-auth-and-the-little-i-am-me-ec14d757ff09)
* [Introduction to DID Auth](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/final-documents/did-auth.md) [[**ϟ**](http://ssimeetup.org/introduction-did-auth-markus-sabadello-webinar-10/)]
* [Decentralized Key Management (DKMS): An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle - Drummond Reed](https://www.slideshare.net/SSIMeetup/decentralized-key-management-dkms-an-essential-missing-piece-of-the-ssi-puzzle-drummond-reed)
* [Recommendations for Decentralized Key Management Systems](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/dkms-recommendations.md)
* [Agent to Agent Communication](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PHAy8dMefZG9JNg87Zi33SfKkZvUvXvx/view): Daniel Hardman explains the goals of agent to agent communication
\
<sup><ahref="http://ssimeetup.org/decentralized-key-management-dkms-essential-missing-piece-ssi-puzzle-drummond-reed-webinar-8/">DKMS - An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle. Drummond Reed. SSIMeetup.org</a></sup>
*<ahref="https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE2DjfY"target="_blank">Microsoft- Decentralized Identity — Own and Control Your Identity.</a>
* [Academic Credentialing and the Blockchain](https://www.learningmachine.com/academic-credentialing-blockchain/)
* [Blockcerts](https://www.blockcerts.org), developed by learning machine is an open standard for issuing and verifying blockchain-based official records; The project offers open-source libraries, tools, and mobile apps. MIT has [issued](https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/10/19/mit-introduces-digital-diplomas) digital certificates based on this standard.
* [CXC (Carribean) Pilots E-Certificates on the Blockchain](https://www.cxc.org/cxc-pilots-e-certificates-on-the-blockchain/)
* [A Decentralized Approach to Blockcerts Credential Revocation](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2017/blob/master/final-documents/blockcerts-revocation.md)
### Schema [**^**](#contents)
* [Schema](https://schema.org) — a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet. Schema.org vocabulary can be used with many different encodings, including RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD. These vocabularies cover entities, relationships between entities and actions, and can easily be extended through a well-documented extension model. Over 10 million sites use Schema.org to markup their web pages and email messages. Many applications from Google, Microsoft, Pinterest, Yandex and others already use these vocabularies to power rich, extensible experiences."
* did:btcr: - [BTCR DID Method](https://w3c-ccg.github.io/didm-btcr/)
* The Bitcoin Reference DID method (did:btcr) supports DIDs on the public Bitcoin blockchain. The Bitcoin Reference method has minimal design goals: a DID trust anchor based on the Bitcoin blockchain, updates publicly visible and auditable via Bitcoin transactions, and optionally, additional DID Document information referenced in the transaction OP_RETURN data field. No other Personal Identifiable Information (PII) would be placed on the immutable blockchain.
* did:stack: - [Blockstack DID Method](https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-core/blob/master/docs/blockstack-did-spec.md) [[**ϟ**](https://forum.blockstack.org/t/did-method-at-identity-foundation/4287/9)]
- Blockstack is a network for decentralized applications where users own their identities and data. Blockstack utilizes a public blockchain to implement a decentralized naming layer, which binds a user's human-readable username to their current public key and a pointer to their data storage buckets.
* did:cnsnt: - Consent
* did:erc725: - [erc725 DID Method](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/DID-Method-erc725.md)
* did:ipid: - [IPID DID method](https://did-ipid.github.io/ipid-did-method/)
- Implementation of the DID spec over IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
* did:life: - [lifeID DID Method](https://lifeid.github.io/did-method-spec/)
* did:sov: - [Sovrin DID Method](https://sovrin-foundation.github.io/sovrin/spec/did-method-spec-template.html)
* did:uport: - uPort
* did:v1: - [Veres One DID Method](https://w3c-ccg.github.io/didm-veres-one/)
* [**veres.one**](https://veres.one) — a permissionless public ledger designed specifically for the creation and management of decentralized identifiers (DIDs)
* did:dom: - Dominode
* did:ont: - [Ontology DID Method](https://github.com/ontio/ontology-DID/blob/master/docs/en/DID-ONT-method.md)
* did:vvo: - [Vivvo DID Method](https://vivvo.github.io/vivvo-did-scheme/spec/did-method-spec-template.html)
* did:icon: - [ICON DID Method](https://github.com/icon-project/icon-DID/blob/master/docs/ICON-DID-method.md)
* did:iwt: - [InfoWallet DID Method](https://github.com/infowallet/did_method/blob/master/did_method.md)
* did:ockam: - [Ockam DID Method](https://github.com/ockam-network/did-method-spec/blob/master/README.md)
* did:ala: - [Alastria DID Method](https://github.com/alastria/alastria-identity/wiki/Alastria-DID-Method-Specification-(Quorum-version))
* did:op: - [Ocean Protocol DID Method](https://github.com/oceanprotocol/OEPs/blob/master/7/did-method-spec.md)
* did:jlinc: - [JLINC Protocol DID Method](https://did-spec.jlinc.org/)
* did:ion: - [ION DID Method](https://github.com/decentralized-identity/ion-did-method)
* did:jolo: - Jolocom
* did:ethr: - [ETHR DID Method](https://github.com/uport-project/ethr-did-resolver/blob/develop/doc/did-method-spec.md)
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* [Peer DID Method Spec](https://dhh1128.github.io/peer-did-method-spec/index.html)
* [@ChristopherA on DID adoption](https://twitter.com/ChristopherA/status/989122017348784130)
> "22/ Over a dozen companies and organizations, using multiple blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hyperledger, etc.), have committed to deploying DIDs, including IBM, Microsoft, Digital Bazaar, Consensys, Evernym, Learning Machine, British Columbia, and more:" —[How blockchain could solve the internet privacy problem](https://www.computerworld.com/article/3267930/blockchain/how-blockchain-could-solve-the-internet-privacy-problem.html)
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## Directory [**^**](#contents)
Other files and folders within this repository:
* [SSI\DID History](history.md)
* [Self Sovereign Identity](self-sovereign-identity)
* [Identity Related GitHub Repositories](identity-github.md)
* [Literature](literature.md)
* [Rebooting Web of Trust](rebooting-web-of-trust.md)
* [Media](assorted-media.md) - Video, Podcasts and Slideshare
