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Building Identity Systems on the Sovrin Network

Phil Windley

Perhaps the most familiar example of a metasystem is the internet. The internet is not so much a communications system as it is a system for building communication systems that all interoperate. For example, I may have a credential representing my drivers license and one representing my employee ID. Drivers license.

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Generative Identity

Phil Windley

This article describes the implementation self-sovereign identity through protocol-mediated credential exchange on the self-sovereign internet, examines its properties, and argues for it generative nature from those properties. The self-sovereign internet is labeled "Layer Two" in this figure. Verifiable Credentials.

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Buyer’s guide: Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and Secure Service Edge (SSE)

Network World

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. Versa also has multicloud support and is investing in 5G and internet of things (IoT) security. But both terms are relevant today.

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Mobiles leapfrog the fixed internet in Africa - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

One of the many insights on this fascinating trip was how mobiles are leapfrogging the Internet across Africa. Across the continent, and even in relatively developed South Africa, fixed broadband Internet is difficult to access, expensive, and unreliable. Mobiles have already leapfrogged fixed line telephony across the continent.

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The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

and virtual worlds | Main | Strategy in a networked world for professional service firms » The convergence of the Internet and TV: how will it happen? Ross Dawson, December 11, 2007 2:04 PM US PT Several media executives have asked me about the convergence of the Internet and TV over the last couple of months.

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Global comparisons: Why bandwidth drives Internet participation - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

However the speed of Internet access varies substantially, by a factor of almost five across the countries covered. The second chart shows an unambiguous correlation between bandwidth and time spent online, underlining the debate in Australia and other countries about the impact of low bandwidth Internet access.

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The next phase of the Internet will be about creating value from the WOW (Wide Open Web) - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

and videoconferencing | Main | Living Networks - Chapter 2: Emerging Technologies – Free Download and Commentary » The next phase of the Internet will be about creating value from the WOW (Wide Open Web) Ross Dawson, April 24, 2008 4:19 AM US PT So far the primary theme of the Web 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[

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