A Framework for Identity
How do you identify yourself? Is it your name? Your email address? Phone number? Drivers license? Facebook account? Last summer, IDEO coLAB brought together 25 students from top Boston-area universities — including Harvard, MIT, Tufts, and RISD — to design venture prototypes exploring the future of trust, transactions, and reputation. Before the program, I hadn’t given much thought to the concept of “identity” or identity systems. But abstract concepts start to take shape and become more tangible when you run into them repeatedly. Over and over throughout the summer, we saw teams wrestle....
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ID3, founded out of the MIT Media Lab, has teamed up with nearly two dozen leading digital currency firms to announce the Windhover Principles. ID3 is a research and educational nonprofit with a mission to develop a new social ecosystem of trusted digital institutions. The Windhover Principles constitute the next step forward in this direction and provide a new framework written by public and private stakeholders to ensure personal identity and data on the web. The Windhover Principles for Digital Identity and Trust are deeply rooted in the belief that individuals should have control of....
The IDESG or Identity Ecosystem Steering Group recentlyfiled paperworkwith the Commonwealth of Virginia to incorporate the IDESG as a nonprofit corporation. The IDESG was basicallyspun out of NISTor the National Institute of Science and Technology to "administer the development of policy, standards, and accreditation processes for the Identity Ecosystem Framework." In April 2011, President Obama signed(PDF) the NSTIC or the National Strategy For Trusted Identities In Cyberspace where public and private players are collaborating on the creation of an "Identity Ecosystem"to address"(1) the....
What is a decentralized identity, and why does it matter? In this guide, we break it down for you. Decentralized identity protocolsSeveral identity protocols, from crypto startups to big tech solutions, deal with decentralized identification, and each has its specifics and features.Though the decentralized identity technology is fairly new, initiatives and players in the decentralized identity space, software for implementing decentralized identity wallets and supporting services are plentiful. They range from the Hyperledger open-source developing community, through a range of....
Tech giant Microsoft has partnered with startups Blockstack Labs and ConsenSys to build an open-source identity platform aimed at integrating the bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. The project seeks to build a platform for cross-blockchain identity across multiple distributed systems. An early version of the identity solution is expected to be available by the end of this summer. In a blog post published today, Microsoft global business strategist York Rhodes wrote that in the coming weeks Microsoft will launch an open source framework on Azure, where developers can build their own identity....
Identity is one use case of the blockchain that has many people excited. For the first time, an individual has the potential to create a true, immutable identity distributed across an entire network. As Consensus 2016 wrapped up earlier this week, a group of thought-leaders who have been working in the identity space for decades presented their beliefs on what to consider when building an identity system using blockchain. Christopher Allen, the principal architect at bitcoin sidechain firm Blockstream, echoed the sentiment of other panelists about the duality of identity on the blockchain.....