[zipline88]

Thankyou for taking the time to respond, and congratulations on the launch!

Aries leverages, Decentralized Identifiers[1] with Verifiable Credentials [2]

the "ledger" is where the public keys are stored. eg it could be a permission-ed ledger, similar to SSL certs only known/<want to be known> parties would publish their keys to the chain.

Example: Sovrin network [3]

Or could be permission-less, maybe focused more towards IoT/whatever

Example: ION Network [4] coming out of Microsoft.

The ledger is not a requirement to establish an identity as shown with the did:peer [5] method

Frankly I think the usage of blockchain was more to get on the marketing bandwagon at the time. Messaging is now moving from "blockchain" to "distributed ledger"

1 - https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

2 - https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model/

3 - https://sovrin.org/

4 - https://identity.foundation/ion/

5 - https://identity.foundation/peer-did-method-spec/index.html

[thekeyper]

Understood, thanks. I think the concept is excellent - truly a digital ID card that you can present with a simple cryptographic token, thus a real "proof of identity". Keyri is "proof of ownership of a trusted device", which, while being a narrower concept, we believe is more palatable from a go-to-market perspective, since companies prefer to proof identities in their own proprietary way.

[zipline88]

I agree, the worst part of the Aries project is the extreme egos associated with it - but i do really like the ideals.

Another example of over reach: Trust over IP [1]

Again congratulations of the launch, I am not advocating Aries but I am very interested. Especially the intersection of actual users (what you are doing) / pie-in-the-sky ideals

I wish you both the best :)

1 - https://trustoverip.org/

[gflacount]

Appreciate the detail. It's quite helpful. Thanks very much!