Meet me at #DICE2023 in #Zurich.

Let's talk #VerifiableCredentials and #DecentralizedIdentifiers as part of #SelfSovereignIdentity with all its exciting implications and potential.

Things to discuss: #GaiaX, #SSI implementation for Gaia-X Federation Services (#GXFS), #SSI at #Eclipse Foundation and how SSI is crucial for #dataspaces and #dataecosystems

📅 Date: June 7th to 9th 2023
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland

You can still register at https://diceurope.org

I participated today in U.S. Customs and Border Protection's (#CBP) #ForcedLabor Technical Expo to discuss and share the role that openly developed, royalty free and free to use standards such as @w3c #VerifiableCredentials, @w3c #DecentralizedIdentifiers and @w3c #JSONLD play in #SupplyChain modernization, visibility and transparency by making multi-party, multi-vendor global #Interoperability possible.

https://www.cbp.gov/trade/forced-labor-technical-expo-2023

I don't want to see "Here's how to do #DecentralizedIdentifiers with #JsonLD!" I want to see more "here's how you parse JSON-LD and use it in a way that actually gives you a measurable improvement for the challenges you are facing," "here's a library that will do the resolution and validation of the metadata for you," and "here's a test suite for building systems that will work with this."

Despite pouring over a lot of resources on this I can't really figure out what it is really for.

People talk about #VerifiableCredentials and #DecentralizedIdentifiers and things like that but #SemanticWeb structures are neither necessary nor sufficient to get the internet there.

Everything I find seems to go:

1. Everything on the internet everywhere gets correctly labeled and the internet becomes a giant graph database.
2. ???
3. Security, search, and interop are solved!

Which is how we ended up supporting, championing and using @w3c #DecentralizedIdentifiers and @w3c #VerifiableCredentials as an abstraction layer over a variety of systems to enable multi-vendor, multi-platform, standards-based interoperability instead of #blockchain

@LukaszOlejnik if you are in the EU: #DecentralizedIdentifiers. In general, making various kinds of e-identity and secret management work without relying on central CA trust hierarchy. Various blockchain companies are pivoting because a distributed ledger is a possible solution, certainly not the only one.

I don't understand what this thing is

Would anyone explain it to me please ?

An example for laypeople, like me

Thanks

#decentralizedIdentity
#decentralizedIdentifiers

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

Been a while since I've updated y'all about #doauth.

Well, we can insert credentials under transaction with a very nice interface: a keypair and a claim map.

Underneath, it's 99%-compliant with #verifiablecredentials and #decentralizedidentifiers standards, but on the surface it just gives programmers what they care about!

Here's how to insert a credential / claim in #doauth: https://git.sr.ht/~doma/do-auth/commit/d2a28de2e48dfd3c739b40633b280c4ab4814826#test/db_test.exs-1-4