4I/ Machine-Readable Governance Files 1 and DIDs + Directories of Trust
DIDs + Directories of Trust / Machine-Readable Governance File Basics
Session Convener: Gabe Cohen and Mike Ebert
Notes-taker(s): Gabe Cohen and Mike Ebert
Tags / links to resources / technology discussed, related to this session:
https://hackmd.io/@mikekebert/HJBQH-SBc#/
Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:
Three main questions:
- Are you who you claim to be? (and how can we tell)
- Are you to be trusted for x? (and how can we tell)
- How do we represent trust lists?
One Approach:
Machine Readable Governance Files published by the “sovereign” entity over a jurisdiction
- List trusted DIDs
- List roles
- Assign roles to DIDs
- List actions
- Assign roles to actions
Now you can see which agents the jurisdiction trusts, what actions are available, and what each agent is supposed to be doing.
Indicio and SITA implemented a first version of machine readable governance files for the nation of Aruba
- COVID use case
- JSON-LD format
Need to include or stand up other mechanisms of trust: credentials, competing lists or opinions, endorsements, ratings
Need to publish, discover, categorize, list, search, share, distribute governance files
Work will continue in the DIF Claims & Credentials working group to create a standard for 'governance files'.
WHITEBOARD PICTURE: See image(s) for these notes in the IIWXXXIV Book of Proceedings here:
