Thank you very much for letting me speak here.
I know this room is probably, I feel like this room is probably full of many activity
pop oriented persons and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to also talk about the relationships
with other protocols here.
This is going to be a lightning talk.
So I am from Vienna and I am a digital, I consider myself a digital human rights activist
and advocacy for activity pop since 2017.
Who have you ever heard of the term SSI before?
Can I see some hands?
Oh, great, great, great.
Who have you thinks to understand what this core idea is about?
Also, I guess, same.
So maybe I, for the rest of you, I say it's a specific way to build a public key infrastructure.
So you have here, this nice little bit in the technical language also called sometimes
a source of common truth, I will come back to specifics of this later, but actually, yeah,
we're talking about a public key infrastructure to manage identities here.
And now I want to say why I am here speaking to you now, I started this effort to bring
public key infrastructure into federated ecosystems like the activity pop ecosystem or the
Fediverse.
I started this actually seven years ago, when a friend of mine, Makusa Badello explained
me the concept of SSI and I was kind of hooked.
So this is a document that's linked here, we'll prove to you that I wrote this with colleagues
in 2019 and submitted it to the first activity pop conference in Prague, 2019.
And sort of the simple suggestion was, hey, we can just add some DIDs here in the actor profile
and just see where this leads us, you know, it maybe it has some benefits for the future.
So what would that offer, that would offer simple ways to verify, make persistence really
long-term persistence of identifying kind of add another dimension to it, clear away some mobility
problems.
For example, if the original instance goes down, you still have a hope of retaining all your
connections and it also helps global discoverability if you want to do that.
So as I said, I was there in 2019 and here you see Christine, here is in Manosporny who
is kind of a chasing LD person, so many W3C people were in the room, I was suggesting this
there and the feeling in the room was, are we still kind of think if you really care about
your identity so much, you just should run your own instance, right?
Then you're safe and good to go.
But also another feeling in the room was okay, but who does not really care about his or her
identity, right?
So there is some, there was some earking feeling at the hands that you show here was
a vote in the room like a room reading of who wants to be open to that thinking that we
could incorporate public keys there.
So first forward, I'm going to skip a little now, so this is around 2020, I saw that Cheg
Grabber did a kind of ecosystem report where she brought these things together, federated
systems and maybe some public key infrastructure that is based on DID's decentralized
identity files.
So now I come to the, what is, for my understanding, really the nice thing of this DID system
and I'm now referencing specifically DID, the PLC, which is the system that's adopted
by ADPoto people.
And I think the crucial thing here is that you create your own account on your own machine
and you just upload the file to this common source of truth.
There is nobody who can really deny that other than the server that says, I deny any kind
of new updates to everyone.
So as I said, you construct this thing on your own machine, sign it and just post it,
and if the server does not accept it, there are ways to prove that the server misbehaves
here.
So what I'm trying to tell you right now is that the only thing that's left to figure
out, the only thing that's left is to figure out is that find a governance model for
this common source of truth.
Yeah, you say the only, it's a big problem.
But the blue sky project actually wants to get rid of this problem as soon as possible.
My feeling is that you want to be sure that this is not in U.S. jurisdiction soon.
So Antioh also saying if this identity server remains to be a stable infrastructure,
it could be beneficial for all the other open projects like our projects here, the Fediverse,
and I'm not the only one saying that this is a quote from really yesterday from Ryan,
from Richard Fed, he says yes, it's a really good way to just start, for example,
having the DAD in the act of profile reference as also known as.
So I think there's a kind of content to be like, well, I'm now trying to, how much time
do I have left?
Okay, what I'm trying to give you now, I think, so this is a community that I've participated
over many years, it was about wireless mesh routing protocols, and there was a big fight
around 2009, which of these protocols is the best, and what we did, we came together like real
people had real differences about, it should be a proactive, no, it should be a reactive one,
and what we did is we established a kind of a movement where we every year meet and do
like a summit to figure out answers in which context is which protocol better, and this is
called the battle mesh movement, I remember of it, they even write scientific reports at the end
of the summit, it's really great. So I think we should do the same here, we should put together
people who are in the DNS based ID word, like activity pop currently is, and other people who are
in a sort of maybe non DNS I call it right now, and I think we can do that if we have,
if we can agree on certain correlations, because then it becomes a coherent research program,
and I think that's my proposal here, maybe we could start with these, like,
we know that community should be in control, I think that's the original story of activity pop,
and I think nobody actually wants to lock people in anywhere, right? That's also one thing,
and this third one is pretty important to my understanding, because it says,
every marketplace, every sort of kind of open space we want to have has a cost attached to it,
there is no free one, if a person says we have to construct this free one, please show them the door,
it's not working, it's an incoherent concept, this is very important, in my understanding.
So, and this is the last one I have, this is a battle of how to quote kind of love this picture,
because it says, yeah, forget about this post truth bullshit, truth is still there,
and love will also never go away, we need to keep talking, that's the point of this picture,
we need to keep talking, we know there is an emotion like, yeah, but we need to keep talking.
So, thank you for your attention, questions, maybe one minute.
Again, we have about one minute for one question, which is the first one I've seen up here, so.
Have you considered did carry, which I understand to be did PLC, but older,
more complicated, more full-featured, and without a network dependency?
I'm a love carry, yeah, there's a carry conference coming up, I've heard.
So, it's, they are very similar, they should learn from each other, adopt each other,
strategies, yeah, a love carry, shout out to the carry people here, and also shout out to Amy Guy,
who is a, I'm here because I read her PhD, and I'm, yeah, so, thank you very much, Paul, thank you,
thank you, it's one of the great things about post damage, we get lots of
crossover between topic areas, and that's really exciting for evolution, I think.