This repository contains documents related to RWOT5, the fifth Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshop, which is to run in Boston, Massachusetts, on October 3rd-5th, 2017. The goal of the workshop was to generate five technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that would have the greatest impact on the future.
Please see the Web of Trust Info website for more information about our community. Go to Eventbrite to register for this event.
In advance of the design workshop, all participants produced a one-or-two page topic paper to be shared with the other attendees on either:
- A specific problem that they wanted to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (PGP or CA-based PKI) can't address the problem?
- A specific solution related to the web-of-trust that you'd like others to use or contribute to?
The following advanced readings have been prepared as primers, intended to give you a foundation in some of the topics that may be discussed at the design workshop:
- A Primer on Functional Identity by Joe Andrieu
- A Primer on Self-Sovereign identity by Christopher Allen & Shannon Appelcline
- A Verifiable Claims Primer by Manu Sporny
Here are the rest of the advance readings to date:
- #RebootingWebOfTrust User Story & Tech Concept by Christopher Allen
- ActivityPub: from decentralized to distributed social networks by Christopher Allan Webber (PDF version)
- BFTKV: Byzantine Fault Tolerant Web of Trust based Key-Value Storage by Ercan Ozturk
- BFTKV DID Method Specification by Ercan Ozturk
- Biometric transaction signing on blockchain by John Callahan & Virgil Tornoreanu
- BTCR DIDs and DDOs by Kim Hamilton Duffy
- DID for the 3D Web by Alberto Elias
- Framework for the Comparison of Identity Systems by Kyle Den Hartog
- The Horcrux protocol: Biometric credentials as high-privacy verifiable claims by John Callahan & Asem Othman
- Hypercerts: Blockcerts Revocation Improvements by João Santos and Kim Hamilton Duffy
- Open Badges (and Blockcerts) as Verifiable Claims by Kim Hamilton Duffy and Nate Otto
- Owned vs. Unowned Claims and Self-Sovereign Identity by Natalie Smolenski
- Recommendations for Decentralized Key Management Systems by Michael Lodder
- Trust Objects: Enabling Advanced Reputation Services on the Web of Trust by Moses Ma & Dr. Rutu Mulka
- Visa? Really? by Kaliya Identity Woman
Following are some of the finished papers from past design shops. They're good reading to understand who we are and what our priorities and goals are:
- Rebranding the Web of Trust — What is the Webof Trust? A quick overview. RWOT1
- DID Implementer's Draft — The draft for decentralized identifiers, the most robust and complete spec to come out of our design shops. RWOT3
- Satisfying Real-World Use Cases — Digital identity in the real-world. RWOT1
- Identity Crisis: Identity through Correlation — An alternative way to look at identity. RWOT2
- HIE of One Blockchain — Identity and the physician-patient relationship. RWOT2
- Smart Consent Protocol — COALA and Consent Receipts. RWOT3
You may also wish to read Christopher Allen's core article on self-sovereign identity:
- The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity — Ten principles of self-sovereign identity. Life with Alacrity
A different repository is available for each of the Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshops:
- Rebooting the Web of Trust I: San Francisco (November 2015)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust II: ID2020 (May 2016)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust III: San Francisco (October 2016)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust IV: Paris (April 2017)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust V: Boston (October 2017)
All of the contents of this directory are licensed Creative Commons CC-BY their contributors.