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“VID Flavours”: including Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), X.509 certificates and the Domain Name System (DNS) records) with high cryptographic assurance and strong semantic linkage; and,
“Trust Realms”: including how contrasting approaches to VID-based trust architecture can share common “Roots” of trust to establish interoperability between “trust realms”.
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A “bridged approach” to VIDs will lay the foundation for High Assurance (HA) Trust Registries, Governance Frameworks and Digital Credential Ecosystems that are agnostic to the underling VID usedover IP (ToIP) Profiles that remain agnostic to the underlying VID. This approach allows decision-makers to choose the most suitable VID for specific contexts and purposes without foregoing interoperability between VID systems. Through designing a framework that supports and acknowledges theunique benefits of each “VID flavour”, different flavours can co-exist rather than compete, resulting in a more robust, scalable, flexible and high assurance architecture for the implementation of ToIP ecosystems.
For a complete overview of the development process for the ToIP technology stack, see Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
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