Distributed Ledgers And The Evolution Of Identity

In this episode:

• Brian discusses his path from his work as one of the developers of the Apache Web Server to the Hyperledger Project’s Linux Foundation, and how the Foundation pulls together distributed ledger and contracts with a focus on the enterprise.
• Brian’s take on the CULedger, and its similarities (and differences) to the development of the Domain Name System.
• You spoke to a lot of the CEOs at the AXFI conference, how do you feel about CULedger?
• How distributed networks provide control over personal identity.
• Factors that contribute to the difficulty of adopting Identity and how distributed ledger plus Identity overcomes some of these problems.
• How GDPR and healthcare are driving the maturation of Identity.
  How Hyperledger and Sovrin are working to provide opportunities to the financial services industry, as well as reduce complexity, including the complexity and expense of physical processes.
• A conversation on who owns an individual’s data and the responsibilities of an agent with access to an individual’s data.
• Why “agency” is becoming a key Identity concept, what it means, and what entities are agents.

Visit https://www.hyperledger.org/ to learn more about Hyperledger, and if you are a developer, to access its open source code. You can also view current Hyperledger projects at https://www.hyperledger.org/projects. All projects have dedicated Rocketchat channels where you can participate.

Visit https://sovrin.org/ to learn more about Sovrin (and Hyperledger Indy), and https://sovrin.org/trust-framework/ to learn about the trust framework. Also, https://www.evernym.com/ is interested to hear from credit unions who are interested in Identity.

URLs related to this week’s BIGCast:

• https://www.cncf.io/ – The Cloud Native Computing Foundation, housed in the Linux Foundation, is an open source foundation to specify how clouds should be architected to serve modern applications.
• https://kubernetes.io/ – The open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications hosted at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
• http://www.culedger.com/ – CU Ledger is the distributed network for credit unions.
• https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/fabric – Intended as a foundation for developing applications or solutions with a modular architecture, Hyperledger Fabric allows components, such as consensus and membership services, to be plug-and-play.
• https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/government-digital-service – The United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service portal.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation – the Wikipedia page on GDPR regulations.
• http://www.thepaymentsreview.com/psd2-a-primer – “The Second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) – A Primer” article by Tom Davis of CSCU.