Re: Is Decentralized Identity/Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) the killer application for blockchain/DLT?

It is still not obvious to me who is going to buy into the SSI concept.

That SSI is cool from the user side is true but what advantages does it offer to RPs (relying parties)?

It seems to me that RPs have to map and effectively "re-enroll" an externally provided (=alien) identity to their own internal identity concept (taxation number, social security number, etc). The eIDAS regulation which EU have decided on (and MUST be implemented by the member states) requires exactly that which is why I believe it won't be the smash hit the eIDAS proponents are promising.

As a French resident of Swedish origin, I now have two e-gov identities which not only are entirely different with respect to content, but also how they are provided technically.

Anders

On 2018-11-17 18:49, Steven Rowat wrote:
> On 2018-11-16 9:49 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:
>> ... sometimes it's easier to just keep plodding along and
>> let your solution compete in the marketplace with all of the other ideas
>> of solving the problem. Sometimes, you have no idea if what you are
>> doing is the "Right thing to do"(tm).
>> ...snip...
>>
>> I don't know how to speed that sort of thing along. It seems to be human
>> nature, to cling to old technologies until they're obsolescence is vivid.
> 
> This reminds me of the even more stark stating of this idea in the
> famous quote by Max Planck:
> 
> “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents
> and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents
> eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
> 
> And perhaps this does apply here, with the shift to DIDs, in the sense
> that what we're dealing with is a huge, even core, paradigm shift.
> 
> And so convincing full-time users of the old paradigm, in advance, may
> never work. It may only work to produce functional DID systems that
> provide people with things that they can use, that supplant the old
> system over time (while, in this case, hopefully being able to work
> alongside the old paradigm, which is probably a good thing).
> 
> 
> Steven Rowat
>

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