RE: Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project

Please take this for a spin: https://hyperonomy.com/2025/12/10/self-sovereign-control-ssc-7-0-metamodel/


From: Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2025 5:49 PM
To: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
Cc: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com>; Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Announcing the 10-Year SSI Revision Project

On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com<mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>> wrote:

I've been working on a parallel track, I call it Self-Sovereign Agents (SSA). Agents need the same things humans need:

- Identity they control
- Memory that persists and is portable
- Reputation that's verifiable
- Ability to interact without platform lock-in
Be careful here.  There is one human that is melvincarvalho@gmail.com<mailto:melvincarvalho@gmail.com>.  (At least that's the presumption, but you could be sharing that account with many others.)  Things are quite different for AI agents, because you can have many instances that start from the same model.  What identity do you mean?  The model's or the instance's or the party supplying the initial prompt?  Maybe what you need is an identifier for the agent that is tied to identities, e.g., Melvin's Perplexity Agent #10.

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Alan Karp