Fwd: RE: Tim Berners-Lee: He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.

Forwarding because this deserves wider exposure.  Nice article in the NY 
Times about the Solid work, which aims to improve privacy and data 
ownership on the Web:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html

If you have not previously looked into this work, I highly recommend it. 
  Sarven provided some links below.

Best wishes,
David Booth

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Subject: RE: Tim Berners-Lee: He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake 
the Digital World.
Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:12:48 +0000
Resent-From: public-credentials@w3.org
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:12:30 +0000
From: Michael Herman (Parallelspace) <mwherman@parallelspace.net>
To: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>, public-credentials@w3.org 
<public-credentials@w3.org>

Here's a Inrupt webinar from a few days ago that I also found helpful 
...especially the Q&A that starts about 20-30 minutes into the video....

https://vimeo.com/498076263

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From: Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca> Sent: January 12, 2021 3:32 AM
To: public-credentials@w3.org
Subject: Re: Tim Berners-Lee: He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake 
the Digital World.

On 12/01/2021 04.19, Michael Herman (Parallelspace) wrote:

>   * Anyone familiar with TBL’s view of Decentralized Identity?

Yes, but will let Tim share his views directly :)

I assume you're referring to DID.

If I may informally say, the general view of the W3C Solid CG [1] is 
that while DID is in the scope of the Solid "ecosystem", we haven't 
quite worked out all angles [2]. There are different paths for interop 
eg. broadening the definition of WebID, making WebID compatible with 
some DIDs (did:web?) It'd be great to get more input in order to make 
this happen.


>   * Is there anyone from the Solid project or Inrupt a member of CCG?

I'm a member of both [3][4].

I've been following CCG and related CGs' work to the point of better 
understanding possible areas for interop. Will make effort to be more 
active here.

My simplistic view based on what I've seen in the CGs is that there are 
several orthogonal specs that can be potentially loosely coupled.

Aside: Inrupt is using the VC data model in its products.

The Solid CG has some work items (others can be proposed and taken up) 
for the ecosystem eg. the Solid protocol, authentication, authorization, 
application interoperability, among other areas [5].

If there are topics this CG would like to explore together or find areas 
that we can better isolate or glue together, it can be here or in the 
Solid CG. All welcome.

[1] https://www.w3.org/community/solid/
[2] https://github.com/solid/identity-panel/issues/1
[3] https://solidproject.org/
[4] https://inrupt.com/
[5] https://solid.github.io/specification/#work-items

-Sarven
https://csarven.ca/#i

Received on Tuesday, 12 January 2021 20:37:02 UTC