Re: Principal Authority – new article on Wyoming law defining Digital Identity

Three questions for Chris and our group related to real-word challenges to
SSI progress:

W1 - Is the Wyoming process concerned only about the identity and authority
of natural persons and, if so, does the need for "efficiency" in cases
where an identity is about a role or a thing introduce confusion into our
work products?

W2 - How would the Wyoming process apply to biometrics as a component of
identity? See https://github.com/w3c-ccg/community/issues/211 for a few
specifics.

W3 - When authority over identity maps into authority over a verifiable
credential, would the Wyoming process deal with request and authorization
protocols differently as applied to the Issuer vs the Holder of the VC?

- Adrian



On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 5:16 PM Christopher Allen <
ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 1:25 PM Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Delegating an identity doesn't connote that it's limited.
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> There is nothing in what is in the current law or those proposed that says
> you delegate your whole identity, but instead that you have as a natural
> person the Principal Authority around your digital self that can be the
> foundation of various rights.
>
> For instance, when I delegate decisions abou certain assets to a financial
> advisor, I don’t give them rights over all my assets. But the assets I do
> delegate to them decisions about, the decisions that my financial advisor
> makes must benefit me. The can’t consider their personal benefit.
>
> — Christopher Allen
>
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