Rebooting the Web of Trust XII: Cologne (September 18-22, 2023)

This repository contains documents related to RWOT12, the twelfth Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshop, which will be held in Cologne in Germany, from Monday, September 18th through 22, 2023.

The goal of the workshop is to generate five technical white papers and/or proposals on topics decided by the group that would have the greatest impact on the future.

Please sign up for our mailing list to be informed as the workshop is finalized.

Final Papers

Beyond did:web (Text)

by Hans Boone, Dan Carez, Mirko Mollik, Dr. Sebastan Schmitner, Dr. Carsten Stoecker

This paper will explore a few recent suggestions for enhancing the did:web method, in particular did:webplus and did:webs. Shortcomings of did:web are analyzed and a list of necessary features to overcome real problems is assembled. We strive to avoid the problem mentioned in the classic xkcd comic on standards and investigate whether the did:web method can be improved without creating yet another (few) DID methods.

The Ecosystem Coordinator’s Role in SSI Ecosystem Management (Text)

by Christiane Wirrig, PhD

The analysis builds on a draft paper from RWOT11 that developed an Enterprise SSI stakeholder map to improve our understanding of the components in an SSI ecosystem that need to be engaged to make a technical solution work commercially. It transpired that an entity called the Ecosystem Coordinator plays a fundamental part in the orchestration of an SSI ecosystem. This short RWOT12 project assesses the role of the Ecosystem Coordinator in more detail based on real-world observations. What does an Ecosystem Coordinator need to be and do to make their ecosystem work?

Advance Readings

In advance of the design workshop, all participants are invited to contribute a one-or-two page topic paper to be shared with the other attendees on either:

• A specific problem that they wanted 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?

Please see the Advance Readings directory for all the current papers (and how to upload yours). Advance readings from RWOT10 (cancelled due to COVID) are also included.

Complete Rebooting the Web of Trust Listing

A different repository is available for each of the Rebooting the Web of Trust design workshops:

• Rebooting the Web of Trust XII: Cologne (September 2023)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust XI: Netherlands (September 2022)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust X: Buenos Aires (March 2020)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust IX: Prague (September 2019)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust VIII: Barcelona (March 2019)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust VII: Toronto (September 2018)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust VI: Santa Barbara (March 2018)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust V: Boston (October 2017)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust IV: Paris (April 2017)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust III: San Francisco (October 2016)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust II: ID2020 (May 2016)
• Rebooting the Web of Trust I: San Francisco (November 2015)

License

All of the contents of this directory are licensed Creative Commons CC-BY their contributors.