Historical Source of Authority

The internet flung us into the digital world, and over the previous several decades, our identities have become more redundant and splintered with each new service provider and authority. Data associated with our identities, as well as instances of our identities, have proliferated to uncontrollable proportions. Consider your most recent relocation. In how many places did you have to disclose your address? Consider how accepted you would be in the current culture if you denied yourself any sort of identification. As digital forms of identification become more prevalent in our daily lives, it is clear that the current approach to identity and identity proofing is out of step with how individuals trade and interact across diverse physical and digital realms. The required operations for verifying, validating, and managing the identity throughout its life cycle are repetitive and time-consuming, necessitating human data reconciliation and validation activities...