Digital Identity · 2026-06-27
SSRN
Cross-border digital identity interoperability fails when states can issue credentials but cannot export trust. The paper's central contribution is to relocate the binding constraint from protocols and enrollment infrastructure to assurance grammar, accreditation authority, trusted lists, and institutional capacity.
Standards, Protocols & Interoperability · 2026-06-26
OWG Connect — Open Trade Infrastructure Series (Discussion Paper v1.0)
The paper's most consequential governance claim is that proprietary electronic bill of lading platforms have not solved the control problem but merely relocated it: authority over a trade document now depends on a commercial operator's continued existence, goodwill, and terms rather than on any independently verifiable cryptographic state. OpenETR's Three-Layer Model is architecturally correct in separating correctness, control, and recognition as distinct concerns, but the paper has not yet specified who governs the governance layer itself, how the attestation and trust-registry infrastructure will be built and held to account, or what enforcement and redress mechanisms will operate when cryptographic control and legal recognition conflict.
Digital Identity · 2026-05-05
Data Security Council of India / Digi Yatra Foundation / National Centre of Excellence
The paper frames self-sovereign identity as a strategic shift from institutional data accumulation to holder-mediated verification, but its governance model still depends on future trust registries, legal recognition, sectoral mandates, revocation controls, and redress institutions that are not yet operationalized.
Trust Infrastructure · 2026-04-06
Author webpage / paper draft
Syntelos reframes trust as a runtime evaluation of attestations against policy, but leaves unresolved the governance of that policy layer, where real authority over system behavior resides.
Digital Identity · 2026-04-06
Reference page for IACR ePrint paper
The paper usefully formalizes privacy-preserving proof of personhood as a cryptographic problem, but its real governance challenge lies upstream of the proofs: who is allowed to issue personhood, what social relationships count, and how those judgments are revoked, contested, and made legible across institutions.
Digital Identity · 2026-03-12
PwC / Strategy&
Digital identity succeeds not when a credential exists, but when governance, interoperability, trust, and everyday service relevance are engineered together as public infrastructure.
Trust Infrastructure · 2026-03-05
Medium (Paul Knowles)
For agentic systems, governance must shift from persistent identity-based permission to action-bound, exhaustible authority that produces verifiable provenance at the moment an effect occurs.