Principles documents
- Self-Sovereign Identity: Ten Years Later
- Ten Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity
- Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity — 2026 Revised (First Community Draft)
- Working redline — live Google Doc (master comment-collecting doc; posted in chat for Rich)
Volunteer principle drafts (per-principle Google Docs)
- Portability draft
- Minimization draft
- Persistence draft
- inalienability_revision_for_christopher_allen
Coercion / paternalism / fiduciary
- Lens Exploration Briefs (Preventing Coercion)
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[Technology Paternalism: AI, Algorithms, Digital Identity, and the Role of Self-Sovereign Identity Kosma Connect](https://www.kosmaconnect.net/interactionblog/technologypaternalism) - Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Fighting Technology Paternalism
- Self-Sovereign Computing
- 10 Design Principles for Governing the Commons
- Kosma Connect
- Martina Kolpondinos, PhD (LinkedIn)
- White Paper — the FIRST PERSON NETWORK
- Michael Leahy (LinkedIn)
- Michael Proper (LinkedIn)
- Fiduciary Commons — Michael Leahy’s data-governance model (mentioned in chat re: Utah)
AI / regulatory context
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[Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access) - Ahmad on X: “Anthropic’s War on Opensource AI”
- Dispatches of a Trust Architect: When Intelligence Begins (AI permission)
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[Google to challenge German ruling saying it is liable for AI-generated false claims Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/world/google-appeal-german-court-ruling-assigning-liability-ai-overviews-false-claims-2026-06-12/)
SEDI / Utah
- Dispatches of a Trust Architect: Progress toward a State-Endorsed Identity (SEDI) in Utah
- Utah SB0275 (LegiScan)
- Utah Digital Choice Act: Reshaping Social Media — Ash Center
- Utah HB0418
Web of trust / XIDs / Amira
- Amira Progress Report (2026)
- Amira: A Self-Sovereign Web of Trust Engagement Model
- Learning XIDs from the Command Line
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[XID Tutorial BCTS IDE — Blockchain Commons TypeScript](https://bcts.dev/xid) - XID-Quickstart/concepts (GitHub)
- Musings of a Trust Architect: On Being the Fifteenth Standard
- Inside the Linux Kernel’s Proposed Switch from a PGP Web of Trust to a Decentralized Trust Graph
- Recent Posts (LifeWithAlacrity)