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# Authentic Chained Data Containers: ToIP Technical Working Group Task Force

A 33-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith presented at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) 2021 B, introducing the Trust over IP (ToIP) Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC) task force. It covers Self-Addressing Identifiers (SAIDs), the ACDC top-level structure including hidden attributes, provenance chaining, issuer-holder-verifier and delegation models, and closed versus open loop verification.

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