---
id: "hardman-identity-facets"
type: "paper"
type_label: "Papers and paper collections"
title: "Identity Facets"
maintainer: "Daniel Hardman"
authors:
  - "Daniel Hardman"
date: "2026-07-09"
year: 2026
reading_level: "intro"
reading_level_label: "Introductory"
reading_level_meaning: "no prior knowledge of the suite"
evidence: "informative"
evidence_meaning: "an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite"
status: "active"
status_meaning: "changed within the last six months, or a live service"
access: "public"
access_meaning: "anyone with the link"
topics:
  - "theory"
roles:
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/if.html"
source_license: null
source_license_note: null
found_on: "hardman-papers"
kerisse_credit: false
abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
abstract_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
abstract_attribution: "KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/)"
last_checked: "2026-10-15"
kskb_url: "https://kskb.dev/cards/hardman-identity-facets/"
kskb_app_url: "https://kskb.dev/#item/hardman-identity-facets"
kskb_record_url: "https://kskb.dev/data/kskb/resources/hardman-identity-facets"
kskb_markdown_url: "https://kskb.dev/export/cards/hardman-identity-facets.md"
---

# Identity Facets

A 2026 primer by Daniel Hardman arguing that identity is about sameness across time and across the facets of a life, that the sameness across facets should be visible only to its owner, and that facets are minted by relationships. It explains why organizational capacity (signing as citizen or as CEO) determines liability, why credentials have an affinity for a facet, and why opaque identifiers per facet need naming and visual verification tools.

Labels: reading level Introductory; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://dhh1128.github.io/papers/if.html (license not recorded).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).