Minimum Positive Human Application of SSI

Minimum Positive Human Application of SSI

Wednesday 13F

Convener: Sam Curren

Notes-taker(s):

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered: SSI, Credentials, Mobile DIDs

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

Minimum Positive Human Application of SSI

Top Idea

Credentials for online training

• mobile app to hold credential
• mobile app to verify
• website library to issue credentials after training
• Trust framework to manage schemas and requirements
• Useful not only for pandemic reasons, but anytime public service requires

some training or certification. Easy for existing credential companies to support. Huge benefit is easy verification.

Candidate projects

We hate passwords. So key management without key management.

• app + library that allows for DID based auth in a dev easy way.

Tools to help people protect and help their less informed loved ones about key custody and delegation. Elder help for fraud prevention.

Social recovery of keys/passwords/etc

• app enabled behavior to close social contacts

End of Lifing that works for all.

• Helping people retire old identities

Avoiding in-person interaction at businesses

• signature cards for a business account at a bank.
• part of the ongoing WFH and remote business transformation.
• “paperless” is healthier post pandemic

UX that keeps you from losing crypto accidentally. (off topic?)

Create a standard to apply Linked Data Signatures for originating devices (like cameras). Embedded in picture with steganography? (hiding data in low order bits) Maybe a combination of IPFS + supply chain techniques so the data doesn’t aggregate in the transmitted content.

Organizational wallets (as a transition path)

Fanny pack of wallets?

UX to organize, navigate, discover, search, catalog a gazillion wallets and credentials

K-12 common core curriculum on identity principles, practices.

Content:

what’s in scope?

Delivery

Homeschool curriculum as a start?

how do we explain in plain language, using visuals and stories and games

Interop and Cross Vendor usage.

Import Export

Agent or agents useful for a kid

focused on education

Inspire kids to push the boundaries of their knowledge in areas that they are interested in

Self/Agent-curated curriculum

Learn at your own pace

Connect to teachers at a level appropriate for you

Natural interactions (The Expanse example)

Emerging Markets with basic problems. Basic identification in a country with poor records.

A cousin to banking?

I like the idea of focus on poor and emerging markets. I think it’s important but also forces an inclusive solution.

The Anthropologically Rich Human model.

patterns and templates for identity designers/architects

show how people think about themselves, interact with each daily, and engage the world.

e.g.

Multiple IDs per family and acting as a family vs a person on behalf of the family (think dinner reservations), and other formal/informal groups.

Many Faceted IDs and personas per person (I’m Mrs. Smith to my 3rd grade students but Mistress Jim to my slaves).

This is a great topic, but it’s been hard for me to convince people that they actually maintain multiple personae. It’s hard to explain and I always get push-back.

Yes. In part because there’s a lot of effort starting and ongoing cognitive burden.

I often use a few examples that are easier to get: that you want to show a different face, control your privacy in different contexts. :::Family and school, job search vs work, banking and billing, healthcare and patient.

Kids able to verify identity of others, both online and in person.

Personal Asset tags ( lost item recovery ) SquareTag

Training Certifications

Getting certifications upon course completion

Proving completion

examples: food bank service, team coaches

examples: disease spread prevention training & pledge

What benefit is required?

Decreased Frustration with a process (like form filling)

Increased Safety

Usability measures (task completion rates, perceived satisfaction, speed of workflow)