Executive Summary This article surfaces a synthesis of challenges / concerns about Hyperledger Indy & Aries / Anoncreds, the most marketed Self-Sovereign Identity technical stack. It is aimed to provide both business and technical decision makers a better understanding of the real technical issues and related business risks of Hyperledger Indy & Aries / Anoncreds, […]| Identity Woman
I have been reflecting on Ikigai a Japanese concept blending passion, talent, purpose, and fulfillment. For me, the magical intersection is in the design and facilitation of interactive events for high performance collaboration communities. My offerings are now updated on the unconference.net website. Check out the three new case studies!. I am keen to work […] The post So you want an Unconference? You can Hire me! appeared first on Identity Woman.| Identity Woman
I’m excited to share that I have joined the Verifiable Community project led by Grace Rachmany. This is a full circle moment for me, returning me to the roots of why I devoted 20 years of my life to the digital identity field. My passion has been in fostering the creation of distributed identity protocols […]| Identity Woman
I am a signatory to the No Phone Home Statement being released today, June 2, 2025. This statement concerns a specific design choice that many in the industry consider potentially hazardous and unsuitable for many digital identity systems. The “phone home” capability is where the issuer of the identity is notified every time the identity […]| Identity Woman
We are heading into the 40th Internet Identity Workshop, an event that I cofounded with Doc Searls and Phil Windley 20 years ago. I am not sure we ever thought it would last this long but it has. We continue to be the world’s leading innovation forum for decentralized digital identity focused on a range […]| Identity Woman
There is a Social Contract with sites and their name policies. Some how companies still don’t really understand this (See what WOW did in 2010) . There is a massive story breaking this week about how GlassDoor a site where people who can create profiles and anonymously rate their employers over their entire careers has […]| Identity Woman
Last week, I flew to LA To attend the Children’s Digital Privacy Summit hosted by Denise Tayloe and her team at Privo. I’ve known Denise since the early days of IIW, and it was great to meet her team for the first time. They put on a great show what began with a talk […]| Identity Woman
I participated in the Internet Identity Workshop Episode of the Rubric Podcast, a casual chat on DIDs and DID methods. Basically, the conversation was mostly with the Internet Identity Workshop’s original organizers and creators. A Brief Introduction to the Rubric A rubric is a standard tool for evaluating subjects. In the context of Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), […]| Identity Woman
JSON, a Simple and Easy Start for Verifiable Credential Issuance JSON is really really simple. It is just name value pairs. There is a tiny IANA registry for JWT claims that defines about 100 JSON terms. This is the one registry of JSON terms that folks who love JSON reference repeatedly and say solves any […]| Identity Woman
Misinformation sometimes gets a foothold and spreads across the digital identity oriented forums. A most recent piece that is percolating is: the Verifiable Credential (VC) Data Model 2.0, which is under development within a formal W3C working group, does not or will not support JSON. What is true: W3C VC 2.0 is 100% capable of […]| Identity Woman
As an enthusiastic member of the RadicalxChange community, I have actively participated in numerous RxC forums including working with the team to produce their 2022 conference series. I was in Zurich for the Digital Identity unConference Europe (DICE) that I co-produced and co-facilitated. Folks who organized the RxC Zurich/Switzerland asked me to be the featured […]| Identity Woman