Trust over IP is is huge, sufficiently mature and the first ToIP apps will be arriving this fall.
Wow.
First out the door will be covid passports, AND largely without government participation or endorsement – (its just moving too fast for gov to possibly be in a position to contribute).
Like GPS or Android this infrastructure “gift” to humanity will be put into open source “orbit” and the world will be invited to explore and exploit. I am certain that ToIP usage will go viral. Its the juxtaposition of a damn good idea and perfect timing.
Proof of concept will be private Covid vaccine passports out late summer 2021 by way of Microsoft or Facebook et al and not tied to any gov service BUT secure, authoritive and very effective. QED.
Governments around the world will be taken aback but they wont stand in the way as cruise lines can finally indemnify themselves from legal repercussions by way of digital proof of vaccination which these ToIP passports will offer.
And this will open the floodgates.
ToIP is designed to go way beyond passports.. to enable a previously unimagined trust ecosystem. Think of that.
From physical things to ideas and intellectual property, to commercial contracts and supply chains, provenance tracking, self authentication resumes, fintech transactions and NFTs (non fungible tokens). Things, trusting things, trusting things in complex computational chains that will transcend the commercial and social ceilings that we have forever presumed as limits. It truly beggars the imagination.
And like all good frameworks today ToIP is open source! taking lessons learned from how the Internet with its RFCs and Linux with its hierarchical meritocracy were built under effective open source licensing.
Bottom line is that real mobile covid passports will be here by the fall and they will spearhead a flood of unimaginable trust architectures based on peer to peer (distributed) trust nets built over blockchains anchors.
Note that ToIP is a “dual stack” – A REALLY GOOD IDEA.
Stack one – the “driven” stack – is a TCP-IP like model for laying out the technical details of how how the whole thing works. Stack two – the “driving”! stack – describes “governance”. Blew me away to see that.
The governance stack is a lesson learned from the Internet fiasco. For all of its fabulous successes the Internet has been a social, legal, security and privacy disaster. ToIP builds these considerations into the protocol.
Anyway – in a nut shell, ToIP is reason #442 to wonder wtf is going to happen in the next decade.
If you’re interested, here is a short intro. The basic concept is well presented (let me know if you find better) BUT cover your ears towards the end when he shows his cards as a Q-Anon style conspiracy theorist.
What Will Be Required For You To Move in Society 2021 Forward (1013) – Bing video
This white paper from W3 foundation is quite approachable too if you have absolutely nothing else to do 🙂 toip_introduction_050520.pdf (trustoverip.org)