Re: Seeking some info

Thanks Anil and Markus!

1) Anil, I believe that decentralization does not necessarily entail 
disorganization. I believe that diverse systems can work together to 
enable critical systems to function in a "coadunated whole". For 
example, the crypto-currency industry has been able to cobble together 
relatively useful market data, even though every thing is decentralized. 
Why isn't it possible for dominant providers of "picks and shovels" form 
a DAO that enables the collection of de-anonymized aggregated data? 
Knowing a rough estimate of how many shovels were sold to support the 
gold rush is useful information to prospectors deciding whether to head 
for San Francisco. Similarly, knowing who sold the most DIDs into a 
certain country, or who sold the most organization vs personal DIDs 
would be useful as well.

I think that knowing how long it takes to get to 1, 10 or 100 million 
DID or VC registrations would be really good to know, especially if a 
killer DID/VC app goes viral. News like "Chat GPT reached a million 
subscribers in five days" is very useful to supporting the growth of the 
self-sovereign identity industry.

2) Markus, your work in collecting and comparing data about DID methods 
would definitely be useful to highlight in the book. Please send me more 
info directly. TIA!

Moses





On 2/12/23 6:36 AM, John, Anil wrote:
>
> > First, is there a federated tracking system that reports how many 
> DIDs and VCs have been issued?
>
> Is not one of the points of being “decentralized” that this type of 
> data cannot be observed/collected/reported in any manner other than as 
> a SWAG (“Scientific Wild *** Guess”)?
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Anil
>
> Anil John
>
> Technical Director, Silicon Valley Innovation Program
>
> Science and Technology Directorate
>
> US Department of Homeland Security
>
> Washington, DC, USA
>
>

On 2/12/23 7:00 AM, Markus Sabadello wrote:
>
> Moses,
>
> Regarding 1)
>
> I agree with Anil that mostly this data cannot be observed.
>
> One exception is the subset of DID methods which publish all DIDs in a 
> globally observable place (such as a blockchain). This includes 
> did:indy, did:ebsi, did:ion, did:cheqd, did:jolo, etc.
>
> We have done some work to collect and compare data about these DID 
> methods here: https://stats.godiddy.com/
>
> Let me know if you think this could be useful for your book...
>
> all the best,
> Markus
>


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