Re: Self-Sovereign Identity and Guardianship in Practice - Exploring the gap between legal and technical perspectives

Note the mention of notary roles in the paper’s conclusion. As SSI
continues to improve on filling the gaps described in the paper, SSI
adoption can be enhanced at the protocol level if the protocols make it
easy for a notary to be involved.

Per SSI principles as well as current practice, the notary is chosen by the
guardian and is therefore a delegate of the guardian with credentials that
can be considered in the verification process. In effect*,* the verifier
doesn’t call home to the issue but might call home to the notary as
delegate.

SSI protocols based on delegation will promote adoption as well as privacy.
Privacy is helped when the chosen delegate has domain expertise that the
presenter of a credential may lack.

- Adrian

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 1:41 AM Joosten, H.J.M. (Rieks) <
rieks.joosten@tno.nl> wrote:

> Recently I was informed that the (refereed) article “Self-Sovereign
> Identity and Guardianship in Practice
> <https://ejlt.org/index.php/ejlt/article/view/895>” I wrote with others
> (from TNO and Dutch universities) was published in the European Journal of
> Law and Technology last December. The article explores (i) the application
> of SSI in the (Dutch) legal context of financial guardianship, (ii) the gap
> between the legal perspective and that of technicians, and (iii) what needs
> to be done to bridge that gap.
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> Rieks
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