The Past inside the Future: Revisiting the DAG (Digital Asset Grid)

All,


As my final bonus round on the DID use cases, I revisit a past project some
of you may remember.


The Past inside the Future: Return of the DAG (Digital Asset Grid)

A lot of what we discuss trying to do with DIDs reminds me of some work I
did at Swift on the DAG/Digital Asset Grid project in 2011/2012. Some
people working on DIDs were on that project (Drummond, Phil, Steve, Kaliya,
Mary Hodder, myself and others I am sure I am forgetting) lead by the
amazing Peter Vander Auwera.

Indulge me as I go into a little bit of history. The DAG project was the
culmination of a yearish collaboration project to envision a digital safety
deposit box. This was envisioned as a new platform service offered by banks
to their customers to secure (and enable sharing of) digital documents.

The project was spearheaded by Innotribe, the innovation division of Swift.
(Disclosure, I worked for them as both film producer and as their Americas
innovation lead.) The project was funded in segments, and (I’ll brag a
little big) my videos showed the future visions that helped secure internal
funding to move the project forward. The video, Slices of Life, (which I
created/produced) showed three use cases of the DAG.

Sadly, this project went dormant after completion. It was given to the
community, but Swift funding ended (yay politics!).  But I knew it was only
a matter of time before someone would build something with the same idea.
The only question I had was, when and who?

Enter DIDs. It was a shock and surprise to me to realize that blockchain
might be able to realize that vision. Back then, in 2011/2012 we were
really only looking at blockchain for cryptocurrencies (and I was totally
drinking that kool-aid - as a researcher in the space. Yeah, my heart got
broken by the crypto-bros. Little known fact I’ve never shared: I went to
work for Swift with the secret intention of getting BTC transacted on their
network. I was clearly too early.)

Anyway, as I’m working on the use cases for DIDs, I thought, why not
revisit these use cases and see if they could be addressed with DIDs.

Here’s the video, Slices of Life that shows these 3 use cases:
https://vimeo.com/52354667

I haven’t followed the traditional format for each of these use cases.
Instead, I’d like to see if anyone is interested in collaborating with me
to further flesh these out and more directly apply them to DIDs. If you
are, please contact me and we can put them into the use case structure that
Joe requests. I think the video shows the Name, Background and Description
clearly. I've outline some of the actions that could potentially be
addressed with the technology we're developing here.


   1.

   Selling a motorcycle (Developed in conjunction with Phil Windley & Steve
   F)
   1.

      Dealing with the various entities/ownership/data
      2.

      Potential buyer: verified credentials
      3.

      Potential sellers: reputation
      4.

      Motorcycle data: IOT
      5.

      Government ownership transaction
      6.

      Financial transaction



   1.

   Due Diligence on a Business Deal (Developed in conjunction with
   Anthemis’s investments and Dominic Sayers (
   https://twitter.com/dominicsayers)
   1.

      Potential business buyer: Verified credentials
      2.

      Developer:
      3.

      Legal and regulatory credentials: Making sure all the permits and etc
      are legit and up to date. Real estate disclosures & agreements.
      4.

      Transaction: Financial bids/closing



   1.

   Baby and doctor interaction (Developed in conjunction with Fidor bank)
   1.

      Patient Delegation: baby
      2.

      Delegation: Parents
      3.

      Delegation: caretaker (grandma)
      4.

      Doctor
      5.

      Data about patient from doctor
      6.

      Data about patient from IOT device
      7.

      Sharing data with doctor
      8.

      Doctor authorizing pharmacy/medicine for patient



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