Identity for Edglings
Here’s somewhat of a personal manifesto for MicroID…
I am going to claim that the ultimate evolution of Identity isn’t in an identifier, but in the collection of the content you’ve produced or contributed to. You are your portfolio.
MicroID is the most fundamental unit of ownership and attribution. It connects content to a hidden but verifiable (by communicating with) identifier, and enables anyone to associate themselves with their content on any system supporting it. It is completely simple, completely decentralized, and completely transparent.
The holy grail of online Identity will be through the organic growth of identity-through-representation and systems that support the freedom of users to contribute, participate, and own content. MicroID is designed to facilitate those freedoms with a simple verifiable technology to enable edge portability and a network of attribution.
