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

Thanks Anders, Kevin, Manu and Steven for your great inputs. Certainly
agree on the well made pointers.

May I therefore conclude that the jury is still out on SSI/Decentralized
Identity on Blockchain?

Would be great if more geniuses in this mailing list could share on this
truly important topic?

Nathan Aw

On Sun, 18 Nov 2018, 13:39 Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com
wrote:

> 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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