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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”.
A “bridged approach” to VIDs will lay the foundation for High Assurance (HA) Trust over 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 high assurance architecture for the internet implementation of trustToIP ecosystems.
For a complete overview of the development process for the ToIP technology stack, see Evolution of the ToIP Stack.
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