[2018-02-13] Microsoft to Embrace Decentralized Identity Systems

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I urge people to read these links in full, some very interesting stuff from Microsoft.

Apologies i cannot post anything from it at the moment but a quick glance has me in a positive mood.


https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/02/12/decentralized-digital-identities-and-blockchain-the-future-as-we-see-it/
http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw8bC9tTo

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I am just visiting this thread again from yesterday and reading over the reports.
There are a lot of points of interest.

As stated in the Google Newsstand article it is not clear what or how Microsoft plan to implement the Decentralized ID system,
or whether we will see them adopting an existing project like, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin or building a decentralized network themselves.

“After examining decentralized storage systems, consensus protocols, blockchains, and a variety of emerging standards we believe blockchain technology and protocols are well suited for enabling Decentralized IDs,” today’s announcement post from Microsoft says.

Identity is one of the long-touted use cases of blockchain technology that does not have anything to do with payments or currency. In today’s post, Microsoft points to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin as three specific platforms that are suitable foundations for DIDs.

This is from their blog post mentioning "new partnerships", is this a wink to IOTA?

Over the last 12 months we’ve invested in incubating a set of ideas for using Blockchain (and other distributed ledger technologies) to create new types of digital identities, identities designed from the ground up to enhance personal privacy, security and control. We’re pretty excited by what we’ve learned and by the new partnerships we’ve formed in the process.