The Web is for Everyone:
Self-Sovereign Identity - Realisation and Application to Marine Surveying / IIMS “The future is still so much bigger than the past.”
By Nick Parkyn
This article (Part 2) builds on Part 1 where we made the case for proof and trust on the internet. This article will describe the emerging software building blocks and platforms that will enable proof and trust and describe some simple use cases applicable to marine surveying.
Initiatives and platforms
Decentralised Web: Social Linked Data (Solid)
Solid is a web decentralization project led by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, developed collaboratively at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project “aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy“ by developing a platform for linked- data applications that are completely decentralized and fully under users’ control rather than controlled by other entities.
The goal of Solid is to allow users to have full control of their own data, including access control and storage location. To that end, Tim Berners-Lee formed a company called Inrupt to help build a commercial ecosystem to fuel Solid.
This project aims to radically change the way Web applications work today, resulting in true data ownership as well as improved privacy.
Solid (derived from “social linked data”) is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building
decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.
True data ownership
Users should have the freedom to choose where their data resides and who is allowed to access it. By decoupling content from the application itself, users are now able to do so.
Modular design
Because applications are decoupled from the data they produce, users will be able to avoid vendor lock-in, seamlessly switching between apps and personal data storage servers, without losing any data or social connections.
Reusing existing data Developers will be able to easily innovate by creating new apps or improving current apps, all while reusing existing data that was created by other apps.
Solid’s central focus is to enable the discovery and sharing of information in a way that preserves privacy. A user stores personal data in “pods” (personal online data stores) hosted wherever the user desires. Applications that are authenticated by Solid are
allowed to request data if the user has given the application permission. A user may distribute personal information among several pods.
The user retains complete ownership and control of data in the user’s pods: what data each pod contains, where each pod is stored, and which applications have permission to use the data.
Inrupt
Inrupt is a commercial start-up co- founded by CEO John Bruce and CTO Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The company grew out of the work Tim and his team at MIT were doing on the open technology called Solid Inrupt is building a commercial ecosystem to fuel Solid’s success and protect the integrity of the next phase of the web. Its mission is to restore rightful ownership of data back to every web user and unleash a new wave of innovation for developers, for business, for everyone
Sovrin
A functional identity metasystem needs more than just technical standards. We often hear that the internet is a product of standards, and while that’s true, it also only exists because
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