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title: "ToIP Trust Spanning-layer Protocol (TSP) Proposal: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet"
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date: "2023-02-08"
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# ToIP Trust Spanning-layer Protocol (TSP) Proposal: A Secure Identifier Overlay for the Internet

A 61-slide deck by Samuel M. Smith dated 2023/02/08 proposing to ToIP (Trust over IP) that the trust spanning layer be an identifier system security overlay, using the hourglass theorem and spanning-layer routing analysis. Earlier and shorter version of the March 2023 deck.

Labels: reading level Implementer; evidence informative (an author's paper, deck, tutorial or post explaining the suite).
Source: https://github.com/SmithSamuelM/Papers/blob/master/presentations/TSPSlides20230208.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/).