Awesome Decentralized Identity

Self-Sovereign, Blockchain and Decentralized Identity Resources

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

Note: becoming decentralized-id.com

See /decentralized-id/decentralized-id.github.io

Contents

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• Link Shorthand
• What is Decentralized ID?
• What is Self Sovereign Identity?
• DID Related Web Standards
  • W3C
    • DID the Decentralized Identifier
    • Verifiable Claims
  • Decentralized Key Managment DKMS
  • DID Auth
  • Learning Machine
    • Blockcerts
  • ERC - EIP
    • ERC 725 - 735
    • ERC Other
  • Schema
• DID Adoption
• Directory
  • SSI\DID History
  • Self Sovereign Identity
  • Literature
    • Rebooting Web of Trust
  • Media - Video, Podcasts and Slideshare
  • Indy-Sovrin-Evernym
  • Decentralized Identity Foundation—DIF
  • Ethereum
  • State Sponsored
  • IBM
  • Microsoft
  • Humanitarian
  • GDPR
• Sources

Pull Requests Welcome

What is Decentralized ID? ^

The essence of Decentralized-ID is to create systems for identification that are not owned by any one particular organization, and global collaboration in support of interoperability among emerging technologies for identity.

It's impossible to have a conversation about decentralized-id without discussing blockchain and self sovereign identity:

• Blockchain fueled longstanding efforts to create a privacy preserving internet-wide identity protocol, and inspired development of decentralized networks for online identification.
• 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.
• The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have also helped to fueled efforts for a global and widely accessible identity solution.

—infominer.id

DID-SSI History

• The Augmented Social Network and the IDCommons
• Internet Identity Workshop—IIW
• Bitnation and the United Nations
• #Rebooting-Web-of-Trust (RWoT)
• ID2020 and the GDPR
• Additional IID Standards History

Self Sovereign Identity ^

• Christopher Allen[info] details the overarching history of internet idenitity standards and outlines 10 Principles of Self Sovereign Identity in his seminal work The Path to Self-Soverereign Identity[ϟ]
• A Technlogy-Free Definition of Self-Sovereign Identity is a continuation of the discussion started by Allen, offering 3 "Core Characteristics of Sovereign Identity".
• 7 Myths of Self Sovereign Identity
• Inevitable Rise of Self-Sovereign Identity
• SSIMeetup [S] [V] [tele] - 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
• /awesome-decentralized-id/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

0/ “Self-Sovereign Identity: A Progress Report”…

— Christopher Allen (@ChristopherA) April 25, 2018

DID Related Web Standards ^

W3C ^

• World Wide Web Consortium(W3C) [T] [G]
• Credentials Community Group[B]
• JSON-LD 1.0, W3C Recommendation
• opencreds.org — Identity Credentials 1.0
• DIGITAL VERIFICATION COMMUNITY GROUP[G]

^{The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org[ϟ]}

DID the Decentralized Identifier ^

• A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace <-DID's modeled after
  • All you need to know about sequential UUID generators
• w3c- Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v0.11
  • Authors:
    • Drummond Reed [T] (Evernym)
    • Manu Sporney[T] (Digital Bazaar)
    • Dave Longley (Digital Bazaar)
    • Christopher Allen [info] (Blockstream)
    • Ryan Grant
    • Markus Sabadello (Peacekeeper) [T] [G] [B] (Danube Tech)
• Understanding Decentralized IDs (DIDs)
• DID Primer [ϟ]
• Decentralized IDentifers (DIDs)
• Requirements for DIDs
• DIDs in DPKI
• What is a DID?
• The Path from an id (DID) to a Real-Life Something

Verifiable Claims ^

• Verifiable Claims Working Group [D]
• Verifiable Claims Data Model 1.0 [G] [D]
• Verifiable Credentials 101 for SSI – Tyler Ruff – Webinar 11

DID Auth ^

• DID Auth and the Little I-am-Me
• Introduction to DID Auth [ϟ]

http://ssimeetup.org/introduction-did-auth-markus-sabadello-webinar-10

Decentralized Key Management-Agents ^

• Decentralized Key Management (DKMS): An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle - Drummond Reed
• Recommendations for Decentralized Key Management Systems
• Agent to Agent Communication: Daniel Hardman explains the goals of agent to agent communication

^{DKMS - An Essential Missing Piece of the SSI Puzzle. Drummond Reed. SSIMeetup.org}

• Microsoft- Decentralized Identity — Own and Control Your Identity.

Learning Machine ^

Learning Machine

• Academic Credentialing and the Blockchain

Blockcerts ^

• Blockcerts, 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 digital certificates based on this standard.
  • CXC (Carribean) Pilots E-Certificates on the Blockchain
  • A Decentralized Approach to Blockcerts Credential Revocation

ERC - EIP ^

ERC 725 - 735

• ERC725 • ERC735
  • proposals in the Ethereum community to standardize smart contracts for certain identity-related operations such as key management, as well as signing transactions, documents, and "claims", which may be attested by third parties or self-asserted.
  • Origin partners on ERC725
• Managing Identity with a UI—ERC-725
• Ethereum ERC725 Blockchain Based, Self-Sovereign Identity Management
• erc725alliance.org

ERC Other ^

• ERC: Lightweight Identity #1056 —This ERC describes a standard for creating and updating identities with a limited use of blockchain resources. An identity can have an unlimited number of delegates and attributes associated with it. Identity creation is as simple as creating a regular key pair ethereum account, which means that it's fee (no gas costs) and all ethereum accounts are valid identities. Furthermore this ERC is fully DID compliant.
• ERC-1484: Digital Identity Aggregator #1495 —A protocol for aggregating digital identity information that's broadly interoperable with existing, proposed, and hypothetical future digital identity standards.
• ERC1056 ❤ ERC780 — an open identity and claims protocol for Ethereum
• ERC-1077 and ERC-1078: The magic of executable signed messages

Schema ^

• Schema — 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 Adoption ^

DID Method Registry

• did:example: - DID Specification
• did:btcr: - BTCR DID Method
  • 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.
  • btcr tx conversion playground
• did:stack: - Blockstack DID Method [ϟ]
  • 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
• did:ipid: - IPID DID method
  • Implementation of the DID spec over IPFS (Interplanetary File System)
• did:life: - lifeID DID Method
• did:sov: - Sovrin DID Method
• did:uport: - uPort
• did:v1: - Veres One DID Method
  • 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
• did:vvo: - Vivvo DID Method
• did:icon: - ICON DID Method
• did:iwt: - InfoWallet DID Method
• did:ockam: - Ockam DID Method
  • did:ockam: [ϟ]
• did:ala: - Alastria DID Method
• did:op: - Ocean Protocol DID Method
• did:jlinc: - JLINC Protocol DID Method
• did:ion: - ION DID Method
• did:jolo: - Jolocom
• did:ethr: - ETHR DID Method

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• @ChristopherA on DID adoption

  "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

• Peer DID Method Spec
• Spidchain [wp]
  • "offers a platform for self-sovereign identity, including desktop and mobile apps for end-users. It uses Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) - backed by optionally Bitcoin or Ethereum - to implement a marketplace for verifiable claims. The Spidchain applications allow individuals to create, recover, and revoke DIDs, to authenticate, to sign and verify files and claims, and more."

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Directory

Other files and folders within this repository:

• SSI\DID History
• Self-Sovereign-Identity
• Literature - Research and Reports
  • Rebooting-Web-of-Trust
• Media - Video, Podcasts and Slideshare
• Indy Ecosystem
  • Indy Github Repositories
  • Literature
  • Adoption
  • Sovrin Foundation
  • VON
• Hyperledger Global Forum
• Decentralized Identity Foundation—DIF
• Ethereum
• State Sponsored
• IBM
• Microsoft
• Humanitarian
• GDPR

Sources ^

• SSI Meetup [V][ϟ]
• IIW-Wiki
• wiki.idcommons.net
• /WebOfTrustInfo
• /peacekeeper/blockchain-identity
• identitywoman.net
• windley.com/tags/identity
• /indy-sovrin-evernym

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