Drummond Reed has spent a quarter-century in Internet identity, security, privacy, and trust infrastructure. He is Director, Trust Services at Avast after their acquisition of Evernym, where he was Chief Trust Office. He is co-author of the book, Self-Sovereign Identity (Manning Publications, 2021), and co-editor of the W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DID) 1.0 specification. At the Trust over IP Foundation, Drummond is a member of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Governance Stack Working Group and the Concepts and Terminology Working Group. At the Sovrin Foundation, he served as co-chair of the Sovrin Governance Framework Working Group for five years.

About Podcast Episode

Read more about the episode by heading to https://northernblock.io/one-trust-spanning-protocol-and-many-trust-tasks-drummond-reed.

Some of the key topics covered during this episode with Drummond are:

Does the new ToIP Technology Architecture Specification address the questions posed by Kim Cameron in his 2005 whitepaper?
If we agree that one identity system cannot rule them all, how then can an identity metasystem solve interoperability across identities, identity systems and contexts? (hint: a trust spanning protocol!)
What are the leading contenders for becoming the trust spanning protocol?
What are some examples of trust tasks, other than credential exchange, that are possible to unlock?
How does a trust spanning protocol x trust tasks lead to advancements in how we manage our relationships, and help us move away from phone numbers and emails as our most valuable identifiers?
Where can governments participate within the hourglass model framework to accelerate digital trust on the open internet?

Where to find Drummond?

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drummondreed/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/drummondreed

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