There has been a lot of development going on with regards to a global Identity layer on the internet: In the standards community, on the vendor side and within many projects, some of them privately driven, others subsidized by local governments as well as the EU. Not only after the recent failure of an SSI project funded by the German Government (“ID Wallet”), the choice of the underlaying concepts, frameworks, infrastructures, standards and technologies has been under heavy discussion. Decentralized or not? How Decentralized is SSI? Sustainable or energy wasting? In this 1hr “elephant-round”, we will clarify, compare, point to weaknesses and flaws, talk about governance and critical masses. Everything you could know at this time about the future of internet identity.
