Re: Ideals meet Implementations - Blockchains, NFTs, Decentralization, Oh My!

Delegation is used to reduce the burden on an individual. Control of
standardized digital credentials is a burden that grows in proportion to
their adoption. Any of you that have had the misfortune my family has had
to deal with credentials as legal guardians of an incapacitated person know
what I'm talking about.

Marriage is highly relevant when considering the general scope of our work.
Article 16 reflects the right to freely choose one's delegate.
Certification of delegates, as in "client credentials" adds significantly
to the burden or the cost to the individual subject.

- Adrian

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 5:54 PM Ward, David <dward@pcgus.com> wrote:

> I think refering to one’s spouse as a delegate is going a bit far in most
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> Similarly the Articles 17 (right to own property) and 18 (right to freedom
> of thought and belief) from the list do not appear to be directly related
> to a right to delegate either.
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> *From: *Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, January 18, 2022 at 2:42 PM
> *To: *Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io>
> *Cc: *Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us>, W3C Credentials CG <
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> *Subject: *Re: Ideals meet Implementations - Blockchains, NFTs,
> Decentralization, Oh My!
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> I'm not sure what you mean by "direct links" but perhaps the best way I
> can explain the human rights angle is to refer to Article 16
> https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
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> Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality
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> Marriage, in our context, is a legally and socially recognized right to
> choose a delegate (spouse), share only some of our policies with
> that delegate, and have that delegate recognized as acting on our behalf.
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> - Adrian
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 5:06 PM Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io> wrote:
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> Adrian,
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> In that linked post you state:
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> With respect to the UDHRs, I would point to
> 12 (privacy and confidentiality), 13 (anonymity), 14 (limit the reach of
> DHS and other state actors), 17 (the right to associate with and delegate
> to others), 18 (associate with and delegate to communities one chooses), 20
> (association, again), 21 (secret elections), 22 (anonymity), 23 (trade
> unions as delegates), 24 (burden of managing decisions in an asymmetric
> power relationship with the state or with dominant private platforms), 29
> (duties to and scope of the community).
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> I think Bob may have been asking for some direct links, as I am explicitly
> asking for now.  Basically [citation needed]
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 4:16 PM Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
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> Yes, Bob. Here are some references to UDHR
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2022Jan/0017.html
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> Adrian
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:56 PM Bob Wyman <bob@wyman.us> wrote:
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> Adrian,
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> You wrote: "Burdening the user to both store and control their credential
> using a "holder" principle is a violation of a person's *right to
> delegate*."
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> Could you please explain what you mean by the "right to delegate?" Is this
> "right" either enumerated within or implied by some existing constitution
> or international document such as the Universal Declaration of Human
> Rights? While I certainly agree that there are many things that users
> should be able to delegate, I'm not sure how one would argue for an
> entitlement to delegate which is so fundamental that one would call it a
> "right."
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 2:29 PM Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>
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> Anil,
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> Here's the beginning and the conclusion that relates to W3C SSI work:
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> If we do want to change our relationship to technology, I think we’d have
> to do it intentionally. My basic thoughts are roughly:
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>    1. *We should accept the premise that people will not run their own
>    servers by designing systems that can distribute trust without having to
>    distribute infrastructure.* This means architecture that anticipates
>    and accepts the inevitable outcome of relatively centralized client/server
>    relationships, but uses cryptography (rather than infrastructure) to
>    distribute trust. One of the surprising things to me about web3, despite
>    being built on “crypto,” is how little cryptography seems to be involved!
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> This is also the point I've been trying to make from a human rights
> perspective: *Burdening the user to both store and control their
> credential using a "holder" principle is a violation of a person's right to
> delegate*.
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> It could also be counter-productive to adoption of our work, including
> "crypto", on standardized digital credentials. One of the places I
> experience this personally is when the vast majority of government agencies
> insist on me providing them with "Release Forms" and do not accept the
> documents themselves. I agree that most private verifiers do accept the
> documents but even they are likely to balk at redacted "presentations".
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> - Adrian
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:34 PM Philipp Schmidt <phi.schmidt@gmail.com>
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> Moxie’s piece is excellent. I also found the comparison to web 1.0 and 2.0
> in Tim O’Reilly’s article useful:
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> https://www.oreilly.com/radar/why-its-too-early-to-get-excited-about-web3/
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> I would like to read more thoughtful and well argued pro-web3 articles,
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 1:28 PM Phillip Long <pdlong2@asu.edu> wrote:
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> Anil: Moxie is the founder of Whisper Systems, acquired back in Twitter in
> 2011. Later he developed Signal (the secure messaging app), etc. A similar
> critique of web3 was published recently by Jeff Galloway (a polarizing
> voice for many to be sure) at https://www.profgalloway.com/web3/
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> On Jan 18, 2022, at 12:06 PM, John, Anil <anil.john@hq.dhs.gov> wrote:
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> Given the continuous discussions around centralization/de-centralization
> in our community, I found this essay by Moxie Marlinspike …
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> My first impressions of web3
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> https://moxie..org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html
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> If you don’t know who Moxie Marlinspike is, recommend doing a bit of due
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> Best Regards,
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