Human Participation through ~WellbeingIdentity

More than an account

~WellbeingIdentity is a workshop-based protocol for contextual human representation. The complete workshop addresses eight nodes: Given Identity, Earned Identity, Rented Identity, Skills, Moral Compass, Story, Identity State, and Consent and Disclosure.

A DID is one facet within this larger identity. It supplies a stable identifier anchor. It does not contain the person's full identity and must not become a public container for sensitive workshop material.

Four distinct objects

The implementation separates:

1. DID: a nonsemantic Phase 1 identifier in the form did:iov:member:<UUID>.
2. Workshop record: evidence that all required nodes and facets were addressed, including states such as self-attested, evidenced, withheld, not-applicable, or unknown.
3. Completion credential: a revocable eligibility claim issued after the workshop satisfies the protocol contract.
4. Public profile: a deliberately limited publication surface selected for public understanding.

Completeness does not mean forced disclosure. A facet may be explicitly withheld and still count as addressed. This preserves the distinction between participation and exposure.

Observer and creator roles

An invited member with the minimum identity record may observe or invoke an expression after consent. Creating a registered-expression draft requires an active workshop-completion credential. This higher threshold establishes accountable participation, but it does not automatically register or activate the draft.

The first founding-author record bootstraps this model from an existing author identity and maps it across the full workshop. It is an implementation precedent, not a claim that public biographical sources can silently complete other people's identities. Future participants must undertake the workshop and control disclosure.

Multiple people

The public website should curate people as nested profiles under WellbeingIdentity, not as a leaderboard. Each profile should explain its publication basis, disclosed nodes, workshop status, and revision path without publishing private facets.

References and grounding

• WellbeingIdentity workshop schema
• Public WellbeingIdentity profiles
• W3C DID Core
• W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0