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RWOT5 in Boston, Massachusetts

Rebooting the Web of Trust V: Boston (October 2017)

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, including upcoming events.

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?

Please see the Advance Readings README for a listing of all of the papers.

Completed Papers

The design workshop met its goal of three to five white papers with four to-date, and others ongoing.

ActivityPub: From Decentralized to Distributed Social Networks (Text)

by Christopher Lemmer Webber & Manu Sporny

An overview of the W3C ActivityPub protocol.

A Decentralized Approach to Blockcerts Credential Revocation (Text)

by João Santos & Kim Hamilton Duffy

Blockcerts are blockchain-anchored credentials with a verification process designed to be decentralized and trustless. This proposal describes an alternate method of issuing Blockcerts using Ethereum, which allows for a new form of revocation by either the issuer or the recipient.

The DCS Theorem

by Greg Slepak & Anya Petrova

A probability proof of the DCS Triangle. Why can't decentralized consensus systems have all three of decentralization, consensus, and scale? Plus, two methods for getting around these limitations.

Identity Hubs Capabilities Perspective (Text)

by Adrian Gropper, Drummond Reed & Mark S. Miller

Identity Hubs as currently proposed in the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) are a subset of a general Decentralized Identifier (DID) based user-controlled agent, based on ACLs rather than an object-capabilities (ocap) architecture. Transitioning the Hubs design to an ocap model can be achieved by introducing an UMA authorization server as the control endpoint.

Linked Data Capabilities (Text)

Christopher Lemmer Webber & Mark S. Miller

Linked Data Signatures enable a method of asserting the integrity of linked data documents that are passed throughout the web. The object capability model is a powerful system for ensuring the security of computing systems.

Veres One DID Method (Text)

by Manu Sporny & Dave Longley

The Veres One Ledger is a permissionless public ledger designed specifically for the creation and management of decentralized identifiers (DIDs). This specification defines how a developer may create and update DIDs in the Veres One Ledger.

Complete Rebooting the Web of Trust Listing

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)

License

All of the contents of this directory are licensed Creative Commons CC-BY their contributors.