I will try to keep these up to date as I discover new resources and learn more about this space. Pull requests welcome.
"Lifetime portable identity for and person, organisation, or thing that does not depend on any centralised authority and cannot be taken away" - Drummond Reed, Chief Trust Officer Evernym
For a great introductory video watch The Story of Open SSI Standards - Drummond Reed/Evernym SSIMeetup.org
Information about DID's
Devloping standards for self-sovereign identity is important so that different companies solutions are interoperable. These are the main internet standards bodies that I know about. They are currently working on developing standards for DID's, Decentralised Key Management, DID Auth and Verifiable Credentials.
- W3C Verifiable Claims working roup
- W3C Credentials Community group
- OASIS - Advancing open standards for the information society
- IEFT - Internet Standards
Papers and whitepapers describing aspects of SSI
- Sovrin - Building the "Public blockchain whose purpose is an identity for all"
- Establishing Identity without Certificate Authorities
- Identity Crisis: Clearer Through Correlation
- Identity in Depth
- The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity
- The Three Models of Digital Identity Relationships
- A blockchain solution for Identity
- Multi-source Identity
- How Sovrin Works
- Tell Me Who You Are - a look at identity and biometrics
- Self-Sovereign Identity: Why Blockchain?
- Self-Sovereign Identity - A Guide to Privacy for your Digital Identity with Blockchain
- Self-Sovereign Identity: Unravelling the Terminology
Interesting projects working to develop self-sovereign identity solutions.
- MIT Solid Project
- Decentralised Identity Foundation
- ID4D, Wold Bank
- World Identity Network
- Digital Bazar
- uPort
- Sovrin
- Evernym
- Veres One
- Blockpass
- Blockcerts
- IBM Blockchain, Identity
- Learning Machine
- Blockstack
- VALID
- Civic
- ID.me
- UN Blockchain, Blockchain for Humanity Global Challenge
- ID 2020
- The Better Identity