Re: existing identifiers for people

Presumably there is a use case for someone to be able to assert that 
their DID represents the same person as an ORCID or ISNI?

Phil


On 12/06/18 18:03, Steven Rowat wrote:
> On 2018-06-12 8:50 AM, Siegman, Tzviya wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I’m seeing a lot of use cases for persistent identifiers for people. 
>> In the STEM world, the ORCID [1] is widely used. Some publishers 
>> (like the one I work for) require authors to have an ORCID. There is 
>> an overlapping system called ISNI [2]. These are real-world scenarios 
>> that already have ecosystems supporting them.
>
> That's very interesting, and the Wikipedia page for it shows that it's 
> widespread and increasing rapidly.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCID
>
> But it seems to me that it's happening at a different logical layer 
> than DID, and that DID will have different capabilities; and so both 
> could be used together if DID becomes widespread.
>
> For example, the ORCHID doesn't appear to support pseudonymous use, or 
> multiple use, or to be safe for web commerce (via public/private 
> keys); or Self-Sovereign Identity in general; the control of the data 
> is by the ORCHID organization, which is centralized.
>
> These are just first impressions; perhaps I'm mistaken. But I don't 
> think it's solving the same problem DID can potentially solve. ORCHID 
> appears to be for researchers embedded in institutions who are using 
> publisher organizations, whereas DID is attempting to be useful -- 
> though admittedly in a similar way at some points -- for everybody on 
> the internet.
>
> Steven
>
>
>>
>> Tzviya
>>
>> [1] https://orcid.org/
>>
>> [2] http://www.isni.org/
>>
>> *Tzviya Siegman*
>>
>> Information Standards Lead
>>
>> Wiley
>>
>> 201-748-6884
>>
>> tsiegman@wiley.com <mailto:tsiegman@wiley.com>
>>
>

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