Re: Prioritizing Individual Sovereignty over Interoperability

Good point..

Of course we have decentralized social networks such as Diaspora,
Mastodon, etc., which would be preferable to Medium.

But they are only a partial solution, since they don't support DIDs (yet).

The most advanced thinking I've seen on combining DIDs with such social
networks is this paper
<https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot5-boston/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/activitypub-decentralized-distributed.md>
by Christopher Webber from RWoT#5.

Markus

On 4/26/19 9:50 PM, Steven Rowat wrote:
> On 2019-04-26 11:44 am, Markus Sabadello wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> In light of the discussions in the W3C CCG, DIF, and recent threads on
>> GitHub concerning proposed changes to the W3C DID spec (related to
>> "decentralization" and the "big tent" idea), Joachim Lohkamp (Jolocom),
>> Kai Wagner (Jolocom), Eugeniu Rusu (Jolocom), Sean Baldwin-Stevenson
>> (Jolocom) and myself (Danube Tech) have prepared an open statement and
>> call to action for the community.
>>
>> https://stories.jolocom.com/prioritizing-individual-sovereignty-over-interoperability-95ec17a36c9b
>>
>>
>> We invite you to read, share, and add your perspectives on that blog
>> post with the aim of broadening the discussion and developing a more
>> comprehensive and rigorous assessment of how to address the challenge of
>> achieving interoperability without diminishing user sovereignty.
>
> Ironically, when I attempt to add a blog comment to the above
> statement (supporting it in principle) I am asked to sign in with
> either my Google or my Facebook account.
>
> I don't want to do that, for reasons that are explained in the Danube
> Tech statement.
>
> IMO, therefore, it's not unreasonable to ask that Danube Tech should
> place this statement and blog somewhere else, or at very least explain
> that such a thing is impossible until DIDs exist in the way that they
> are describing.  ;-)
>
> Steven
>