This repository contains documents related to the "Rebooting the Web-of-Trust" series of events in the fall of 2016.

The third DesignShop event, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on October 19th, 20th, & the 21st 2016, is a facilitated, invite-only event focused on creating the next generation of decentralized web-of-trust based identity systems. The goal of this initial DesignShop is to generate 5 technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that will have the greatest impact on the future.

In advance of the October DesignShop, all participants were requested to post in the Topics and Advanced Readings folder a 1 or 2 page topics paper to be shared with other attendees on either:

• A specific problem that you'd like to solve with a web-of-trust solution, and why current solutions (pgp or ca-based pki) can't address the problem?
• A specific solution related to the web-of-trust that you'd like others to use or contribute to?

The topic papers submitted were:

• Identity as Linked Data on Immutable Ledgers by Tim Daubenschuetz and Trent McConaghy
• EU General Data Protection Regulation & Self-Sovereign Identifier(s) by David Robert
• Identity Forking and Federated Reputation by Christopher Malon
• OpenTimestamps: Scalable, Trustless, Distributed Timestamping with Bitcoin by Peter Todd
• Distributed Identity, Distributed Self by Natalie Smolenski
• Blockchain Extensions for Linked Data Signatures by the Signature Super Friends (Manu Sporny, Harlan Wood, Noah Thorp, Wayne Vaughn, Christopher Allen, Jason Bukowski, and Dave Longley)
• Fit for Purpose Blockchains by Digital Bazaar (Manu Sporny, Dave Longley, Dave Lehn, and Adam Lake)
• Taxonomy of Identity Interaction Types by Kaliya Young
• Privacy Preserving Identity Architectures by Anonymous (no, not that Anonymous, the other one)
• [A Technlogy-Free Definition of Self-Sovereign Identity] (https://github.com/jandrieu/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/raw/master/topics-and-advance-readings/a-technology-free-definition-of-self-sovereign-identity.pdf) by Joe Andrieu
• [Architecture of Proof-of-Stake Blockchain that Doesn’t Have Native Coin and its Applicability to Decentralized Trading] (https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/Proof-of-stake-without-native-coin.md) by Pavel Kravchenko
• [JXD Examples] (https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/JXD-Examples.md) by Markus Sabadello
• [Anonymous Credentials in Sovrin] (https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/anonymous-credentials-in-sovrin.md) by Jason Law and Daniel Hardman
• Portable Reputation Toolkit by Noah Thorp and Harlan Wood
• [Blockchain Attestation Taxonomies] (https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/attestation-taxonomies.md) by Christian Lundkvist
• Slepak's Triangle: The fundamental user limit of decentralized consensus systems by Greg Slepak (@taoeffect)
• Sovereign Identity Model for Digital Ecologies by Patrick Deegan
• Alternative Futures: Framework for Identity Scenarios by Alessandro Voto
• Powering the Physician-Patient Relationship with HIW of One Blockchain Health IT by Adrian Gropper
• [Creating a Humanized Internet] (https://github.com/vshen2010/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-fall2016/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/Creating%20a%20Humanized%20Internet.pdf) by Monique Morrow, et al