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Jamie Pitts edited this page Jan 17, 2020 · 6 revisions

Purpose

This Ring is to begin discussions and coordinated experimentation for human identity systems.

Problem Statement

Human identity is a key requirement for quadratic voting/funding/etc and other political schemes to work within decentralized smart contract systems. There are both technical and philosophical obstacles to overcome.

by identity, I mean attempts to identify properties of the physical human being that controls a particular cryptographic key. A particular use case is the "unique human" problem, constructing a set of cryptographic keys that are each owned by a different person.

Vitalik Buterin, tweeting about a disagreement among cyberpunks and RadXers about identity

Resources and Readings

Different Approaches to Ethereum Identity Standards

List of Ethereum Identity Specs, EIPs, implementations - DIDecentral

Topics on the FEM Forum under the Identity Ring

Topics on the FEM Forum under the "identity" tag

EIPs and Ethereum-related Standards

ERC-1056 - DID-compliant lightweight identity

Jolocom DID Method

ERC-725 v2

Significant implementations

uPort - implements DID

Jolocom - implements DID

Bloom - full DID compatibility proposed in BLIP-6

Related Initiatives / Projects

W3C DID WG

DIF / Digital Identity Foundation

Rebooting Web-of-Trust

ERC 725 Alliance

- [Meetings](Meetings) - [Principles](Principles-of-the-Fellowship) - [Infrastructure](Infrastructure) Elsewhere: - [Forum](https://ethereum-magicians.org) - [Gitter Chat](https://gitter.im/ethereum-magicians) - Twitter [@EthMagicians](http://twitter.com/EthMagicians) - Twitter [search for #ethmagicians](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ethmagicians%20OR%20from%3AEthMagicians%20OR%20%40EthMagicians&src=typd)
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