How Self Sovereign Identity Support Laws of Identity?

Volodymyr Pavlyshyn
1 min readMar 26, 2023

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In 2005, Microsoft’s Chief Identity Architect, Kim Cameron, wrote an influential paper called The Laws of Digital Identity.

It defines the core principles of a meta-identity system that allow the building next generations of identity systems.

Let's look at how Self-Sovereign Identity Principles support this law and enable to build of a meta-identity system on top.

correlation of digital identity laws and SSI principles © A Comprehensive Guide to Self Sovereign Identity

You could get more details in a book.

In a picture, we see a mapping of laws and principles. Only one item is missing. Direct Entity — is covered by DIDs. So entities should have public and resolved identifiers, like the peer-to-peer private ones that allow the building of pseudo-anonymous relations.

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Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

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