Re: existing identifiers for people

This is nicely handled by the Verifiable Credentials model on top of DIDs.
Those organizations issue VCs using a DID-based connection to an xxxID
owner. Others can verify that the xxxID VC was issued by the corresponding
centralized organization.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Phil Barker <phil.barker@pjjk.co.uk>
wrote:

> 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> <tsiegman@wiley.com>
>
>
>
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