Boundless optimism has been the dominant mood on the Internet as we collectively fell in love with it in the 90s.
Our perhaps biggest mistake was in leaving certain parts of the development to strangers who had their own agenda. We did not worry, for freedom would surely prevail.
The nature of the creation would ensure that all humans, anywhere, would have access to good information. In our mind, the result would be a global surge of well-run, far-sighted democracies everywhere.
Meanwhile it has become clear the architecture of today's Internet has some fundamental flaws.
These flaws lead to power imbalance, the platform economy, and the surveillance business model.
Now governments everywhere are rushing to build digital identity systems. But instead of building them with a clear eye on the requirements for such systems to be resilient in terms of privacy and security, most are currently poised to repeat the mistakes of the past.
This is something we must not accept.
@greve Indeed, do you prefer any particular flavor of digital identity?
I'm a big fan of KERI.
@daidoji Agreed.
Have been part of the KERi community for 18 months or so now. A lot has happened since I wrote https://ggreve.medium.com/a-future-for-self-sovereign-identity-c237caa5e46f
Working closely with the KERI community these days to hopefully have an answer to some of these challenges within the year.
@greve Cool! If you need any help we run a small independent KERI shop https://vleida.net . We have our own implementation of KERI/CESR in Elixir and everything.
Glad its on your radar!
Georg Greve
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