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29 changes: 13 additions & 16 deletions draft-documents/a-roadmap-for-ssi.md
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> Wikipedia

Reality Check
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We are a community of very passionate and bright individuals who share a
common vision about self-sovereign identity (SSI). We have as an open
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- Need secure wallets - http://www.links.org/files/nspw36.pdf

Myths to debunk
---------------

There is a perception that blockchain based identity solutions actually
There is a mis-perception that blockchain identity solutions actually
store personally identifiable information (PII) on the distributed
ledger. This is utterly false. The SSI initiative not only advocates
against such poor practices, the community has established several
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identity data. You might choose as an individual to not identify
yourself with a public key on a blockchain. But someone can still add
other pointers to the ledger (your email, your phone, your photo) and
then attach claims to that log that anyone can access.

One common misunderstanding concerns the perception that one cannot opt
out as a user from participating in the public sharing of identity data.
This notion is reminiscent of the old passive aggressive putdown, “When
did you stop beating your wife?” - leaving not only a presumption that
the offense occurred, but also leaving the target of the disparagement
with the impossible task of proving a negative.

Why would one assume that somehow the fact that a blockchain is involved
means that a user would be compelled to assert an identity in any
particular case?

Beyond that is the fact that an asserted identity cannot be
reconstructed from the trail it leaves on the blockchain.
then attach claims to that log that anyone can access - leaving not
only a presumption that the offense occurred, but also leaving the
target of the disparagement with the impossible task of proving a
negative. The DID and Verifiable Credentials standards address such
concerns, which is referred to as the correlation of identity data.
This complex issue is addressed in a document titled [A Primer on
Functional Identity](https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/functional-identity-primer.md) which serves as a theoretical
framework for the SSI initiative.

Establishment of the Roadmap Tribe
----------------------------------

One requirement for success is to establish a roadmap tribe, that would
be responsible for driving the workflow for developing tools and process
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- Vishal Diro:

Manifesting some WOWs
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Another requirement for success is to create a design process that would
lead to a sustainable flow of compelling technologies that provide a
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