Fwd: [first-person-project] First Person Project Update #9 — 2025-09-19 — V1.0 WHITE PAPER RELEASED

The First Person Project's whitepaper just released 🎉  Learn more about it
below.

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*Harrison Tang*
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From: Drummond Reed via groups.io <drummond.reed=gmail.com@groups.io>
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Subject: [first-person-project] First Person Project Update #9 — 2025-09-19
— V1.0 WHITE PAPER RELEASED
To: <main@first-person-project.groups.io>


Friends of the First Person Project,

V1.0 of the FPP white paper is finally ready! So our headlines today:

   1.

   Please share, post (or repost) the V1.0 white paper (see instructions
   below)
   2.

   Join the LinkedIn First Person Project page
   3.

   LFDT announces the launch of the Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group
   4.

   Progress report on FPP funding
   5.

   Reminder about the First Person Project mailing list subgroups available
   now

Details:

#1: FPP WHITE PAPER PUBLISHED — PLEASE SHARE THE NEWS

After two rounds of review from over 50 FPP supporters, the First Person
Project White Paper V1.0 is ready! Thanks to Margeigh Novotny and Martina
Kolpondinos, we now have a dedicated page on the First Person Network
website to serve as the long-term home for the white paper. You can
bookmark this page and hand out this URL to anyone because the latest
version of the paper will always live here:

https://www.firstperson.network/whitepaper

As I write this, the page only has a link to the PDF version of the white
paper. Later today Margeigh will add a link to the Google doc version
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RtS86BqyVn3i3mXm48VhC-SRaYvW2W_MvR4w6x9KQWY/edit?usp=sharing>
of the paper as well for anyone who doesn’t want to download a PDF.

Based on the feedback we received, the main changes to V1.0 were:

   -

   Adding a four page Executive Summary, including a one-page answer to
   “What is the First Person Project?”
   -

   Adding a new opening section to Part Five called, “What is a
   decentralized trust graph?”
   -

   Aligning the information in Part Nine about the First Person Network
   Cooperative and the First Person Fund with feedback from our attorney Jason
   Wiener.

ACTION ITEM FOR ALL INTERESTED FPP COMMUNITY MEMBERS: please write your own
post or repost this one I just made on LinkedIn:

(
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drummondreed_decentralizedidentity-decentralizedtrust-share-7374769833311322112-2GzN


After two months of drafting and review from dozens of contributors, the
First Person Project White Paper V1.0 is here (link in the first comment).
WARNING: this is not your typical white paper. We took the time to describe
all the dimensions of the First Person Project as a solution for
privacy-preserving proof of personhood using decentralized trust graphs.

However, we included a four-page Executive Summary (plus a Visual Overview
slide deck if you prefer the fast lane).

We look forward to your feedback and comments—and urge anyone interested to
join the new Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group launching Sept 24 at
the Linux Foundation, jointly hosted by Trust Over IP (ToIP) and
Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF).

#2: JOIN THE LINKEDIN FIRST PERSON PROJECT PAGE

Thanks to Martina Kolpondinos we now have a LinkedIn page for the First
Person Project:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/first-person-project/

Please visit that page to follow it—we will also start sending out follower
invitations later today.

#3: LFDT ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF THE DECENTRALIZED TRUST GRAPH WORKING GROUP

LF Decentralized Trust published this announcement of the launch of the
Decentralized Trust Graph Working Group
<https://www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/blog/toip-and-dif-announce-three-new-working-groups-for-trust-in-the-age-of-ai>
starting with these kickoff meetings on Wednesday 24 September:

   -

   North America/Europe: 08:00-09:00 PT / 15:00-16:00 UTC (NA/EU)
   -

   APAC: 18:00-19:00 PT / 01:00-02:00 UTC

Any member of Trust Over IP (ToIP) or Decentralized Identity Foundation
(DIF) may participate in the DTGWG. If you are not yet a member of either,
you may join ToIP at this link
<https://trustoverip.org/get-involved/membership/> (both free and paid
membership options are available—for individual memberships, please follow
these very helpful instructions from Geoff Turk
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oztWGFJ_Nws5ky8G4dQ-mz1SJ9SusAsToldeim7kqlk/edit?usp=sharing>)
or join DIF at this link <https://identity.foundation/join/>.

#4: PROGRESS REPORT ON FPP FUNDING

I have spent the past two weeks in meetings about the First Person Project
in San Francisco and New York City (with a stop in Hangzhou, China to give
a talk about FPP at the GOSIM 2025 conference). Although no one has written
a check yet, more pathways to the bootstrap funding we need are opening up.
See Part Nine
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RtS86BqyVn3i3mXm48VhC-SRaYvW2W_MvR4w6x9KQWY/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.kjsxqjvujx1>
of the white paper for the overall game plan for forming the First Person
Network Cooperative and raising the First Person Fund.

#5: REMINDER: 3 FPP SUBGROUP MAILING LISTS NOW AVAILABLE

A reminder that we have added three subgroup mailing lists, each with a
subgroup manager:

   -

   Linux Kernel MVP project:
   https://first-person-project.groups.io/g/linux-kernel (Geoff Turk)
   -

   ZKP architecture: https://first-person-project.groups.io/g/zkp (Hart
   Montgomery)
   -

   Healthcare: https://first-person-project.groups.io/g/healthcare (Jim St.
   Clair)

You can subscribe and visit the archives (all public) of any of these by
clicking the links. Please use these lists for questions or discussions
around these specific topics. To request a new subgroup, send email to
drummond.reed@gmail.com.

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Finally, make sure to have Internet Identity Workshop
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/internet-identity-workshop-iiwxli-41-2025b-tickets-1393125719529>
#41 on your radar (Oct 21-23 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain
View). We will have numerous FPP sessions there. Also, they just added
another day on Agentic AI (Friday Oct 24, same location). I will be
attending that to share what we cover in Part Seven
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RtS86BqyVn3i3mXm48VhC-SRaYvW2W_MvR4w6x9KQWY/edit?tab=t.0#bookmark=id.bpi2ldragd6c>
of the white paper: using verifiable relationship credentials for
authenticated delegation to personal AI agents—see this graphic from my
GOSIM 2025 presentation in Hangzhou last weekend:

[image: image.png]

Best,

=Drummond


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