After hosting @RWOTEvents a few years abroad, I am thrilled to have Rebooting the Web of Trust, our collaborative design workshop on decentralized identity, back to its original home in California, with #RWOT13 occurring October 7-11, 2024 in Ventura, California [1/10]

I've posted more specific details about the attempt, 81 years ago today, by the Dutch Resistance in WWII destroy the Civil Archives and population registry, which was led by the Amsterdam LGBT+ community to protect the Jews and other undesirables: forum.rpg.net/index.php?thre…

A video (11m) of #Foremembrance and the moment-of-silence commemorating the 81st anniversary of the attempt by the WWII Dutch Resistance to destroy the identity records held by the Nazis, is now available at youtube.com/watch?v=R9KuIlAg…

Next Wednesday, March 27 is #Foremembrance Day. Join me here for a Livestream just before the sun sets over Amsterdam (11am PT, 2pm ET, 7pm CET). I'll be talking about the dangers of correlated identity, and some lessons from history. [1/11] xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1MnxnMLyE…

I am hosting right now an @RWOTEvents "Open Office Hours" discussion on decentralized self-sovereign identity, and inspirations for self-sovereignty from history and elsewhere. DM me for Zoom URL.

There are some very important decisions being made over the next year by the EU about the future of human-rights focused decentralized identity. Will every transaction have KYC vs. GDPR. LESS Identity vs Trust-Minimized. Be influential about these choices at…

Latest white paper from September's #RWOT12. Goal is to understand & tie together various decentralized #web3 identity efforts with W3C Verifiable Credentials. For instance, how various on-chain proofs are used to help in the verification of claims. Team led by @by_caballero.

If you'd like to be part of the discussion, take a look at the full paper. [7/7] github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rw…

After being incubated at RWOT11, "Verifiable Issuers & Verifiers" was introduced for discussion at the 35th #IIW, and the authors suggest that future technical specs could be overseen by the W3C CCG [6/7] w3c-ccg.github.io

The "Verifiable Issuers & Verifiers" paper also covers prior art and unified requirements and offers a concrete data model and plenty of examples. It's an impressively comprehensive overview of the topic! [5/7]

But it turns out there is a real need for Verifiable Verifier lists too. Who is allowed to see what credentials? How can we automatically minimize what any person can see? There are use cases for that too! [4/7]

The need for Verifiable Issuers is old. In the past, governments and other agencies have kept lists of Trusted Registries that could issue credentials — such as universities, who can issue diplomas. However, digitally sharing lists of Verifiable Issuers is quite new. [2/7]

Another collaborative paper has been published by @RWOTEvents from this fall's #RWOT11 event in The Hague: "Verifiable Issuers & Verifiers" from a team led by @manusporny [1/7]

I am pleased to see the second paper from our #RWOT11 The Hague today: "Linking Credentials with Data Exchange Agreements through Secured Inclusive Interfaces," by a team led by @philippePage1 & @lalchandran 🧵[1/9].