Re: Verifiable Claims Charter Proposal prepped for W3M

Is it better to use high-stakes examples?


On Mon., 3 Oct. 2016, 6:28 am Manu Sporny, <msporny@digitalbazaar.com <mailto:msporny@digitalbazaar.com>> wrote:
On 10/01/2016 07:49 AM, Timothy Holborn wrote:
> Human Centric is a very good means to differentiate from service
> centric IMHO. ie: organic living beings vs. the tools created by such
> parties.

We have discussed human-centric before, the concerns were:

* The ecosystem supports IoT, AI, and autonomous entities - all of
  which are not humans and may not be human-centric (for example, a
  swarm of robots that attempts to protect local biodiversity of which
  humans are not the center of the equation).
* It could be argued that OpenID Connect and SAML are human-centric. It
  could be argued that Google+, Facebook, and Twitter are human-centric.
  It's harder to make that argument about self-sovereign, where an
  entity has domain over their verifiable claims.
* Self sovereign is starting to catch on at places like the United
  Nations and Future of Identity conferences. The same isn't true for
  Human-centric. The tide is going in the direction of self-sovereign,
  so changing direction at this point would have us swimming against
  the tide.

Just some background, as someone that argued for human-centric for a while.

-- manu

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