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# Authentic Chained Data Containers

A 40-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith for the Trust Over IP Technical Working Group ACDC Task Force, version 1.05 of July 2021. It sketches an authentic data container as an attestation with source references, provenance chaining rules, issues with Linked Data, authenticity verification models and authorization properties. Early design material from the task force's start.

Labels: reading level Practitioner; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/ACDC.web.pdf (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/).