Governing Identity, Respectfully
summary
User-centric identity efforts keep failing at scale: dozens of self-sovereign projects failed and personal data stores never arrived. Governance must pair technical controls with rules, enforcement, bounded scope and incentives. ICANN's multi-stakeholder model is presented as a concrete case: tens of thousands applied to at‑large seats but only ~300 from Africa, and the WHOIS private registration compromise shows how tradeoffs (privacy vs. law enforcement vs. IP claims) get negotiated rather than solved by code alone.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Identity governance introduction
- 1:59Identity as relational privacy
- 3:45Privacy governance frameworks
- 5:36Multi-stakeholder governance
- 7:02ICANN’s model complexity
- 10:14Balancing domain governance
- 12:24Why multi-stakeholderism works
- 13:49Conditions for success
- 14:10Conclusion
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