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Volodymyr Pavlyshyn
Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

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How Self Sovereign Identity Support Laws of Identity?


In 2005, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, Kim Cameron, wrote an influential paper called The Laws of Digital Identity.

It defines the core principles of a meta-identity system that allow the building next generations of identity systems.

Let's look at how Self-Sovereign Identity Principles support this law and enable to build of a meta-identity system on top.

correlation of digital identity laws and SSI principles © A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity

You could get more details in a book.
Learning Digital Identity

In a picture, we see a mapping of laws and principles. Only one item is missing. Direct Entity — is covered by DIDs. So entities should have public and resolved identifiers, like the peer-to-peer private ones that allow the building of pseudo-anonymous relations.

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