If you will be attending Rebooting the Web of Trust Fall 2018 in Toronto, Canada, please upload your topic papers and advanced readings to this directory with a pull request (or, if you don't know how, post an issue).

Please see the Web of Trust Info website for more information about our community. Go to Eventbrite to register for this event.

Topics & Advance Readings

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?

Here are the advanced readings to date:

• Agent to Agent Communication Protocol Overview by Kyle Den Hartog
• CapAuth by Manu Sporny, Dave Longley, Chris Webber, and Ganesh Annan
• Cryptocurrency Wallets as a Form of Functional Identity by Mikerah Quintyne-Collins and Abdulwasay Mehar
• Decentralized Error Reporting by Jack Poole
• Decentralized Identity: Hub Authentication & Message Encryption by Daniel Buchner
• DIDDoc Conventions for Interoperability by Stephen Curran & Olena Mitovska
• DIDs In DPKI by Greg Slepak
• Digital Identity for the Homeless by Matthew Wong, T. Tian & CG Chen
• Five Mental Models of Identity by Joe Andrieu
• Identity Hub Permissions / Authorization by Daniel Buchner
• IPLD as a general pattern for DID Documents by Christian Lundkvist
• Is a Decentralized Collective Identity Possible? by Heather Vescent
• Magenc Magnet URIs: Secure Object Permanence for the Web by Christopher Lemmer Webber
• Measuring Trust by Tyler Yasaka
• More Control for Identity Holders by Arturo Manzaneda and Ismenia Galvao
• Not-a-Bot: A Use Case for Decentralized Identity using Proximity Verification to generate a Web of Trust by Moses Ma & Claire Rumore
• The Political Economy of Naming by Kate Sills
• A Public Web of Trust of Public Identities by Ouri Poupko and Ehud Shapiro
• Resource Integrity Proofs by Ganesh Annan, Manu Sporny, Dave Longley, and David Lehn
• The Role of Standards in Accelerating Innovation by Michael B. Jones
• Scoped Presentation Request on Verifiable Credentials by Martin Riedel
• Standards for Agency and Decentralized Information Governance - Early Experience by Adrian Gropper, MD, and Michael Chen, MD
• Towards Proof of Person by Peter Watts
• A Trustless Web-of-Trust by Ouri Poupko
• Verifiable Displays by Kim Hamilton Duffy, Lucas Parker & Anthony Ronning
• Verifiable Offline Credentials by Michael Lodder
• What (and Who) Is In Your Wallet by Darrell O'Donnell
• Digital Identity for the Homeless by Matthew Wong, T. Tian & CG Chen
• Zero Trust Computing with DIDs and DADs by Samuel M. Smith

Primers

These primers overview major topics which are likely to be discussed at the design workshop. If you read nothing else, read these. (But really, read as much as you can!)

• DID Primer — Decentralized Identifiers (extended version also available)
• Functional Identity Primer — A different way to look at identity
• Verifiable Credentials Primer — the project formerly known as Verifiable Claims
• DIDs In DPKI - how DIDs fit into Decentralized Public-key Infrastructure