- From: Michael Williams <michael.williams35@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2015 00:53:19 +1300
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments CG <public-webpayments@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CA+VkC+05Cj1yg+ujVSXKNF47vr37ZQE7_ZmwOK9uUsJq4yBv4g@mail.gmail.com>
in case folks are interested, here's a mad science approach to decentralized and secure linked data: https://github.com/ssbc/docs#secure-scuttlebutt =^.^= On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > The Web currently does not have a mechanism where people and > organizations can claim identifiers that they own. > > Identifiers, such as those rooted in domain names like emails addresses > and website addresses, are often rented by people and organizations and > thus are not good candidates for long-term identifiers. The danger is > that if the rent is not paid, all data associated with the identifier is > temporarily or permanently inaccessible. This document specifies a > rent-free mechanism where people and organizations can cryptographically > claim identifiers that they control and store data at those identifiers. > We've been calling this technology "WebDHT" (we need a new name!). > > The first editor's draft of the WebDHT technology has been posted to the > Web. For those of you that attended the calls last year, this work is > necessary in order to have truly portable identifiers (for identities, > financial accounts, etc.). The spec can be found here: > > http://opencreds.org/specs/source/webdht/ > > Neither the spec or technology is fully baked by any stretch of the > imagination. There is still a lot of work that needs to be done, but the > general idea is in the spec now for review. > > -- manu > > PS: One of the nice things about being trapped on a plane for 11 hours > (W3C TPAC in Sapporo, Japan last week) is that you can get a lot of spec > editing work done. > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: Web Payments: The Architect, the Sage, and the Moral Voice > https://manu.sporny.org/2015/payments-collaboration/ > >
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