This repository contains documents related to RWOT5, the sixth Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshop, which is to run in Santa Barbara, California, on March 6th to 8th, 2018. 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?
This should be uploaded to Topics & Advance Readings directory.
Here are the advanced readings to date:
- Blockchain Timestamps Unnecessary In Proof-of-Work? by Greg Slepak
- Collegial Certifcation Works for Truly Collegial Communities by Wes Kussmaul
- Decentralized Attestations Storage - Current Challenges by Kulpreet Singh
- Decentralized Identities for the Cannabis Industry by Matthew Nguyen & Nicholas Shook
- DID-Auth Protocol by Kyle Den Hartog
- Distributed Reputation Systems Using Blockchain Records by Kate Sills
- Identity System for Immersive and Ambient Computing by Alberto Elias
- Open TLS by Sam Curren
- Open Verifiable Data to Drive the Digital Economy by John Jordan
- Petnames for Self Sovereign and Human Readable Identifiers by Christopher Lemmer Webber
- Veres One Primer by Manu Sporny, etal.
- Web of Pragmatics: A Comment on Methodology by D. Crocker
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
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)
- Rebooting the Web of Trust VI: Santa Barbara (March 2018)
All of the contents of this directory are licensed Creative Commons CC-BY their contributors.