Re: Call for Focal DID Use Cases

 Hi Samantha, Steven

Validbook is the attempt to solve Gordian knot of issues that you point to.

Please see description of Validbook idea here -
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2018May/0024.html

The key point in regards to solving these issues is to align interests of
service providers with the interests of users. Validbook provides the
solution to do this - by creating and distributing Kudos.
This alignment makes possible to achieve end-to-end encryption, ownership
over data, fix too-high-engagement issue with social networks, etc.
Technically these issues are not that difficult to fix.

--Bohdan


On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 8:10 PM, Steven Rowat <steven_rowat@sunshine.net>
wrote:

> On 2018-06-05 8:58 AM, Samantha Mathews wrote:
>
>> Been enjoying reading through everyone’s user stories and use cases. I’m
>> struggling a bit to understand what group is working on a solution for the
>> individual to be in control of their own data. ... ...snip...
>> What could possibly be more pressing? I’m furious that terms like Self
>> Sovereign Identity have become your protocols and jargon. ...snip...
>> Is there a larger more collaborative  group besides the W3C that deals
>> with these overarching human crisis or are the silos created by these very
>> specific groups all there is?
>>
>
> Hi Samantha,
> Welcome.
> I share your concerns, but I've been lurking here, and occasionally
> contributing to the discussion, since before DID, and before Verifiable
> Claims -- when this was "Web Payments", well over a decade.
>
> During that time, there have been massive changes in focus, but especially
> in the last three months the changes have been explosive.
>
> My belief is that DID is bigger than expected; it can do everything. It
> may be bigger than the W3C. It may need its own guiding standardizing body;
> one controlled by "one person, one vote", not by "one
> corporate/bureaucrative paid member, one vote", like the W3C.
>
> Yes, as you say, recently -- the last year or two -- I've seen the VC/DID
> central work drift towards corporate/government use-cases. But that doesn't
> mean that DID and VC are limited to those cases. It's been set up to deal
> with everything; it's been a long hard fight. I believe those capabilities
> have survived in the protocol so far.
>
> But somebody has to write the code for the private use cases. My hunch is
> that people are already doing that. Perhaps that's not true.
>
> In fact another thing, which your post has prompted me to put here,
> appeared recently: Microsoft is buying GitHub, where the DID/VC work (and
> thousands of other 'open source' projects) are being developed. Only in the
> last year or so has the DID/VC work been moved to GitHub.
>
> https://phys.org/news/2018-06-microsoft-billion-github.html
>
> Perhaps some other list members can clarify this more. My belief is that
> it doesn't matter; that the truly private-data DID systems can still be
> made now, and that won't change.
>
> But whether W3C is the best place to standardize and ensure that
> capability isn't subtly removed is still moot, I think.
>
> Steven Rowat
>
>