# blueSky notes: identity channel

editors: Juan Caballero (CET)

## Other channel docs

[reputation + moderation](https://hackmd.io/_IDvR4iDRI-cGzpV51ahAQ)

## Resources

Some references:

Decentralized Identity
- [DID Specifications and registries](https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods)
- A good [primer](https://spruceid.dev/docs/primer) on the subject
- The Decentralized Identifier Specification, aka the "[DID-core spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/)"" at W3C
- The Verifiable Credentials Data Model Specification, aka the "[VC spec](https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/)"
- The Decentralized Identity Foundation's ["FAQ"](https://identity.foundation) (more of a knowledgebase, really) - a very technical resource, good for navigating the existing libraries, standards, and pre-standards specifications and OS implementations

#indieweb and decentralized web
- Ben Werdmüller's 2021 blog post [The Return of the Decentralized Web](https://werd.io/2021/the-return-of-the-decentralized-web)

ActivityPub, Mastodon, et al.
- Social Web Incubator CG at W3C [homepage](https://www.w3.org/wiki/SocialCG) - the folks behind the [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/) and [Activity Streams](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/) specs

Privacy Engineering more generally
- Contextual Integrity - [wiki page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual_Integrity), [book](https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=8862&bottom_ref=subject), and earlier [article](https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/privacy-as-contextual-integrity)

## Core issues

- do users self-register?
- are accounts bound by one or more terms of service?
- who manages accounts, and to whom are they responsible, accountable, and/or liable?
- how (and at what layer/points in the architecture) is traffic governed and/or regulated?
- can users opt in to linking their accounts to external authorities?
- If so, which authorities, and who decides when to add or substract authorities individually or in classes?

## Architectural questions

- where is each account's data stored?
- how is this crawled?
- how can crawling and replication be decentralized/multi-centric?

Links from Discord
- https://decentralized-id.com/
- [bluesky ecosystem review doc](https://gitlab.com/bluesky-community1/decentralized-ecosystem/-/blob/master/topics/identity.md)
- [decentralized-id rebooting web of trust](https://decentralized-id.com/workshops/rebooting-web-of-trust/)
- [W3C did working group](https://www.w3.org/2019/did-wg/)
- [Tim Bray "simplest sketch"](https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/12/01/Bluesky-Identity)
- [what twitter can copy from tinder](https://www.platformer.news/p/what-twitter-should-copy-from-tinder)
- [identity spectrum, identitywoman deck 2012](https://www.slideshare.net/Kaliya/identity-and-context-people-and-personal-data)
- [inside the kill zone](https://financialpost.com/technology/inside-the-kill-zone-big-tech-makes-life-miserable-for-some-startups-but-others-embrace-its-power)
- [twitter bluesky, mark nadal hackernoon](https://hackernoon.com/twitter-bluesky-a-decentralized-protocol-proposal-hi193337)
- https://cbor.io/, https://ipld.io/
- [twitter thread regarding phishing, ens, zooko's triangle](https://twitter.com/zooko/status/1434220535240482819)

Projects/ Protocols
- [Iris](https://iris.to/store)
- [Party.lol](https://party.lol/)
- [mask.io](https://mask.io/)
- [tkey](https://tkey.io/)
- [3FA example aethiop allfriends](https://github.com/aethiop/allfriends)
- [peergos](https://peergos.org/)
- [polymesh fractal id](https://info.polymath.network/blog/polymath-implements-identity-verification-on-polymesh-with-fractal-id-integration)
- [proof of humanity](https://app.proofofhumanity.id/profile/0x1db3439a222c519ab44bb1144fc28167b4fa6ee6)
- [keyoxide](https://keyoxide.org/)
- [brightid](https://www.brightid.org/)
- [identity foundation](https://identity.foundation/)
- [verus.io](https://verus.io/)
- [sidetree](https://trustbloc.github.io/did-method-orb/)
- [veramo.io](https://veramo.io/)
- [activitypub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/)
- [davatar](https://www.davatar.xyz/)
- [civic vending machine](https://www.identity.com/black-fire-innovation-age-verification-vending-machine/)