Hi,
I'm trying to come up with a set of universal trust levels or trust categories for Digital Identifiers (DIDs) and I'm wondering if there is an existing document or other resource that might help me. At the highest level, for example,
* is a DID backed by a distributed ledger (or not)? i.e. the Indy ledger ...or it simply lives in a local wallet.
Has anyone seen a categorization/taxonomy/set of "trust levels" for DIDs?
Here's some "back of the envelope" notes I've been working on...
Update: Technically, I'm really asking about Trust in a Digital Identity defined by it's associated DID and a Credential (set of Claims) associated with the DID. I'm clarifying this because when you start to research trust, trustworthiness, trust levels, etc., you end up coming across a lot of different articles, for example, about the trustworthiness of the content in Wikipedia, for example.
* Secure - ? - not easily disambiguated
* Reliable - ? - available? - not easily disambiguated
* Historized - lives on a transaction journal or database
* Auditable - lives on a transaction journal or database, projections = ledgers
* Verifiable - lives on a transaction journal (preferably, a trusted transaction journal)
* Permanent - live on a permanent transaction journal
* Immutable - live on a write-once, read-only, trusted transaction journal, or decentralized transaction journal (e.g. blockchain)
* Cryptographically Verifiable - lives on a decentralized transaction journal (e.g. blockchain)
Best regards,
Michael Herman
Self-Sovereign Blockchain Architect
Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab
Parallelspace Corporation
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