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Representation through ~WellbeingIdentity
DIDs, full workshop identity, public profiles, selective disclosure, and revision.
Observer Attention Is All You Need · v0.2 · Moses Sam Paul
Representation through ~WellbeingIdentity
Identity is not an identifier
A DID provides a stable identifier anchor. The Phase 1 form is nonsemantic: did:iov:member:<UUID>. It should not encode a person's name, role, diagnosis, or social category. A DID is not the full ~WellbeingIdentity.
The full workshop
The workshop addresses eight nodes: Given Identity, Earned Identity, Rented Identity, Skills, Moral Compass, Story, Identity State, and Consent and Disclosure. Facets can be self-attested, evidenced, withheld, not applicable, or unknown. Addressing every facet does not require making every facet public.
Four publication layers
The model separates:
- the DID used as an identifier;
- the private workshop record and its evidence;
- a revocable workshop-completion credential;
- a deliberately curated public WellbeingIdentity profile.
This separation allows eligibility to be verified without exposing the workshop. A public profile should publish only the claims the participant has chosen and the institution can responsibly support.
Identity updates
An observation may inform an identity record only under an appropriate contract. It should append contextual evidence, not overwrite the person. The participant needs visibility, correction, selective disclosure, and revocation pathways.
Against worth scores
No identity node, wellbeing signal, contribution claim, or workshop credential measures a person's intrinsic worth. Credentials establish bounded eligibility. Profiles communicate selected context. Neither should become a social credit score.