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2022 Event | Session Video
What Will We Learn from the Market Failure of Digital Identity?

Speaker: Stephen Wilson, Founder, Lockstep Consulting
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Location: Denver, CO

Description: A paradigm is a suite of “universally recognized achievements that for a time provide model problems and solutions for a community of practitioners”. We have all been working in a Digital Identity paradigm ever since the late great Kim Cameron published the Laws of Identity in 2005. Our industry’s achievements are many, including robust standards, cryptographically Verifiable Credentials, and a body of knowledge and professional practices. We have a widely accepted Standard Model of Identity, or architecture, in which Subjects, Identity Providers and Relying Parties (aka Holders, Issuers and Verifiers) hold, present, exchange, use and/or consume digital identities.

The problem is this model remains mostly hypothetical. Decades ago, the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia decided to leave the free market to come up with Digital Identity services. Yet this simply has not happened, not in any way like the ecosystem envisaged by those governments’ elaborate trust frameworks and the Laws of Identity. The uncomfortable truth is that digital trust has been a market failure, but the good news is we are primed for a true paradigm shift, where the standard model is overturned, the Identity problem reframed, and our digital tools and practices re-purposed.

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