- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:17:14 +0100
- To: Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com>
- Cc: W3C Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Received on Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:17:42 UTC
On 27 January 2015 at 14:21, Adrian Hope-Bailie <adrian@hopebailie.com> wrote: > Proposal for a "DataBox" to act as gatekeeper for personal information > > http://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.04737v1.pdf > Very interesting work, thanks for sharing. This is exactly the kind of thing a few of us are hoping to build using web standards. I would personally use WebID for identity here, or an extended form of webid which includes email etc., then some of the work from credentials for serialization (JSON LD) and signatures. For access control I'd hope to reuse web standards developed here and with linked data platform, also the W3C privacy interest group. Authentication itself I would leave out of scope other than for reference, because there's too many different techniques to mandate any one. What I feel is important is decentralization and complying with web standards which are closely related, since one is motivated by the other (im not sure how well the nymote.org stack will fair there -- im guessing it wont pass a validator, but we'll see) The idea of incentives is something new, and I like it. This could perhaps tie in with work elsewhere such as w3c payments and/or crypto currencies. I like the focus in this paper on the user experience. Putting a good UX together with privacy aware web standards could appeal to a wide market segment.
Received on Tuesday, 27 January 2015 17:17:42 UTC