Re: Defining Axes or Dimensions of Trust for a Digital Identity?

Hi Michael,

The Rubric document that a few of us in the CCG have been working on
might be interesting? There's a WIP draft from RWOT9 here:
https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/draft-documents/decentralized-did-rubric.md
but I expect this will be updated further soon, and possibly be
developed further as part of the DID Working Group.

It contains various types of criteria for evaluating a DID Method
depending on the evaluator's particular needs or use case. Criteria
related to 'trust' are among those proposed so far.

The Rubric is for DID Methods rather than individual DIDs though, so
apologies if I'm off the mark with what you're looking for.

Amy

On 18.9.19. 18:29, Michael Herman (Parallelspace) wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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,
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>   * is a DID backed by a distributed ledger (or not)? i.e. the Indy
>     ledger …or it simply lives in a local wallet.
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> Has anyone seen a categorization/taxonomy/set of “trust levels” for DIDs?
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> Here's some "back of the envelope" notes I've been working on...
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> 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.
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>   * Secure - ? - not easily disambiguated
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>   * Reliable - ? - available? - not easily disambiguated
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>   * 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)
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>   * 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)
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>   * Cryptographically Verifiable - lives on a decentralized
>     transaction journal (e.g. blockchain)
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> Best regards,
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> Michael Herman
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> Self-Sovereign Blockchain Architect
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> Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab
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> Parallelspace Corporation
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> Trusted Digital Web Certificate 0.1
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Received on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 17:16:25 UTC