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Thankyou for taking the time to respond, and congratulations on the launch! Aries leverages, Decentralized Identifiers[1] with Verifiable Credentials [2] the

Thankyou for taking the time to respond, and congratulations on the launch! Aries leverages, Decentralized Identifiers[1] with Verifiable Credentials [2] the "ledger" is where the public keys are stored. eg it could be a permission-ed ledger, similar to SSL certs only known/<want to be known> parties would publish their keys to the chain. Example: Sovrin network [3] Or could be permission-less, maybe focused more towards IoT/whatever Example: ION Network [4] coming out of Microsoft. The ledger is not a requirement to establish an identity as shown with the did:peer [5] method Frankly I think the usage of blockchain was more to get on the marketing bandwagon at the time. Messaging is now moving from "blockchain" to "distributed ledger" 1 - https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ 2 - https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/ 3 - https://sovrin.org/ https://sovrin.org/ 4 - https://identity.foundation/ion/ https://identity.foundation/ion/ 5 - https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/index.html https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/index.html

thekeyper 5y ago
Understood, thanks. I think the concept is excellent - truly a digital ID card that you can present with a simple cryptographic token, thus a real "proof of identity". Keyri is "proof of ownership of a trusted device", which, while being a narrower concept, we believe is more palatable from a go-to-market perspective, since companies prefer to proof identities in their own proprietary way.
- zipline88 5y ago
  I agree, the worst part of the Aries project is the extreme egos associated with it - but i do really like the ideals. Another example of over reach: Trust over IP [1] Again congratulations of the launch, I am not advocating Aries but I am very interested. Especially the intersection of actual users (what you are doing) / pie-in-the-sky ideals I wish you both the best :) 1 - https://trustoverip.org/ https://trustoverip.org/
  - gflacount 5y ago
    Appreciate the detail. It's quite helpful. Thanks very much!

thekeyper 5y ago

Understood, thanks. I think the concept is excellent - truly a digital ID card that you can present with a simple cryptographic token, thus a real "proof of identity". Keyri is "proof of ownership of a trusted device", which, while being a narrower concept, we believe is more palatable from a go-to-market perspective, since companies prefer to proof identities in their own proprietary way.

zipline88 5y ago
I agree, the worst part of the Aries project is the extreme egos associated with it - but i do really like the ideals. Another example of over reach: Trust over IP [1] Again congratulations of the launch, I am not advocating Aries but I am very interested. Especially the intersection of actual users (what you are doing) / pie-in-the-sky ideals I wish you both the best :) 1 - https://trustoverip.org/ https://trustoverip.org/
- gflacount 5y ago
  Appreciate the detail. It's quite helpful. Thanks very much!