Web 7.0 DIDComm Agent Architecture Reference Model (DIDComm-ARM) 0.40 (December 18, 2022)

A Design Guide for Software Architects and Developers working on DIDComm Agent-based Software Systems

Copyright (c) 2022 Michael Herman (Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License
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Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Parallelspace Corporation. January 2023.

This is the second public release of the Web 7.0 DIDComm-ARM whitepaper.

For a quick introduction, checkout the article Welcome to Web 7.0!.

Your comments and feedback on the DIDComm-ARM, its layered models, and Web 7.0 (seventh layer in the DIDComm-ARM) will be greatly appreciated.

You can find us on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/web7arch (hashtag #web7).

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Abstract

Figure 1. Web 7.0 High-Level Architecture Reference Model (WEB7-ARM)

The purpose of this document is to introduce and describe the DIDComm Agent Architecture Reference Model (DIDComm-ARM) and the DIDComm Notation. The latter is a graphical modeling language used to design and model DIDComm Agent-based software systems.

The goals for this document are three-fold:

  • Better understanding of the active components of DIDComm Agent-based software systems and how these components rely on and interact with each other,
  • Introduce a new graphical modeling language, DIDComm Notation, to aid architects and developers in visualizing new architectures and designs for DIDComm Agent-based software systems, and
  • Describe a layered architecture reference model, DIDComm-ARM, to help guide the design and creation of the broadest range of DIDComm Agent-based software systems possible.

DIDComm Notation contains elements for modeling:

  • Conventional REST/HTTP clients, agents, and services
  • DID Addressable REST/HTTP clients, agents, and services
  • DIDComm clients, agents, and services
  • DIDComm agents that utilize Verifiable Credential message attachments
  • DIDComm mesh networks
  • DIDComm user agents
  • Virtual web drives and keystores

Collectively, these categories of DIDComm Notation modeling elements (and their interrelationships) define the DIDComm Agent Architecture Reference Model (DIDComm-ARM). The DIDComm-ARM contains multiple layered architecture models:

  • Layer 0 REST/HTTP Agent Model
  • Layer 1 DID Addressable REST/HTTP Agent Model
  • Layer 2 DIDComm Agent Model
  • Layer 3 DIDComm Agent with Verifiable Credential Attachments Model
  • Layer 4 DIDComm Agent Mesh Network Model
  • Layer 5 DIDComm User Agent Model (Appendix A)
  • Layer 6 Web 7.0 DIDComm Agent Architecture Model (Appendix B)

The intended audience for this whitepaper is a broad range of professionals interested in furthering their understanding of DIDComm for use in software apps, agents, and services. This includes software architects, application developers, and user experience (UX) specialists; as well as people involved in a broad range of standards efforts related to decentralized identity, Verifiable Credentials, and secure storage.

The primary audience is software architects and developers designing and creating DIDComm Agent-based software systems[1].

This document is an independent work product produced by the author(s) and is neither a W3C, DIF, Sovrin Foundation, nor a ToIP work product – unofficial, official, or otherwise.

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Web 7.0 DIDComm Agent Architecture Reference Model (DIDComm-ARM) 0.27

A Design Guide for Software Architects and Developers working on DIDComm Agent-based Software Systems

Copyright (c) 2022 Michael Herman (Alberta, Canada) – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License
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Your comments and feedback on the DIDComm-ARM, its layered models, and Web 7.0 (seventh layer in the DIDComm-ARM) will be greatly appreciated.

You can find us on Twitter @ https://twitter.com/web7arch (hashtag #web7).

UPDATED: The last version of the DIDComm-ARM whitepaper can be found here:

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Michael Herman, Blockchain Developer, Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist: #Graphitization Inventor

COPYRIGHT © 2016-2017 by Michael Herman, Seattle, Washington and Toronto, Canada. All rights reserved.

Michael Herman is an expert when it comes to the mathematical modeling, analysis, and visualization of almost everything:

  • Large enterprise organizations,
  • Commercial, global-scale, cloud services platforms,
  • Organization principles and belief systems,
  • Human platforms,
  • Aircraft engines, and
  • Muscle cars.

Michael is the inventor of the #Graphitization Continous Transformation Model – a closed-closed loop feedback process for the ingestion, modeling, analysis, visualization, systems optimization, and life cycle management of any type of strategy, system, asset, architecture, or process.

progressive-ea-model-1-0-11-peam4-operational-data-chasm

Figure 1. #Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model

A key concept of #Graphitization is the implementation of Transformative Changes that result in positive increases in business value in the system being modeled.

#Graphitization

What is #Graphitization?

#Graphitization is a data science and enterprise architecture framework and process model for modeling, ingesting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing any domain of endeavor by using graphs – networks of connected objects and relationships with each object and relationship annotated with additional descriptive information (metadata).

The primary applications of #Graphitization are:

  • System optimization,
  • Systems life cycle management, and
  • Transformative Change in resulting in positive increases in business value for the system being studied.

A system is defined as any collection of strategies, system components, assets, architectures or processes.

References

#Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model

The #Graphitization general model is described in Figure 2. as it applies to the design and optimization of large enterprise organizations.

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Figure 2. #Graphization Continuous Transformation Model: Large Enterprise Organizations

The same model can also be used to improve the design and operation of many different types of systems:

  1. Large scale enterprise organizations (public and private sector)
  2. Aircraft engines, muscle cars, and other high-performance engine systems
  3. Commercial, global-scale, cloud services platforms
  4. Automated service composition of cloud services-based data systems
  5. Large collaborative ecosystems: employee groups, business partners, social networks
  6. Large ecosystems of competing or competitive business organizations
  7. Organization principles and belief systems
  8. Conventions software applications and architectures: desktop, server, and web apps
  9. International standards for visual modeling languages
  10. Parallelspace ModelMate
  11. Enterprise Data Management
  12. Internet of Things (IoT)
  13. Architecture Reference Models

Standards

NEO Enhancement Proposal (NEP) Standards Author

Projects and Publications

0. SerentityData Graph

Model-based off-chain and on-chain (blockchain) graph data creation, migration, visualization, and analysis

Abstract

SerentityData Graph is an entity-relationship modeling, serialization, and graph analysis solution that supports development of traditional full-stack and blockchain smart contract applications. SerentityData features tight Neo4j integration for on-chain & off-chain graph data visualization and analysis.

Description

SerentityData Graph is an open source, entity-relationship modeling, serialization, and graph data visualization and analysis solution that supports the development of traditional full-stack, blockchain-based smart contract, and Neo4j graph database applications.

Starting from a single data model, SerentityData supports the automatic code generation of entities and relationships that support symmetric development of: (a) off-chain data in traditional multi-tier full-stack applications, (b) on-chain data management for blockchain-based distributed ledger technology apps (dApps), and (c) Neo4j enterprise graph applications.

SerentityData features complete life-cycle integration with Neo4j for on-chain and off-chain graph data creation, migration, visualization, and analysis. Live code walk-throughs and demonstrations will enable you to begin using SerenityData and Neo4j immediately. Github: https://github.com/mwherman2000/serentitydata-compiler

Resources

My blog: https://hyperonomy.com/

Related blog posts

  1. Michael Herman, Blockchain Developer, Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist: #Graphitization Inventor https://hyperonomy.com/2017/05/18/michael-herman-inventor-of-graphitization/
  2. #Graphitization of the Enterprise https://hyperonomy.com/2017/01/02/graphitization-of-the-enterprise/
  3. Tokenize Every Little Thing (ELT) https://hyperonomy.com/2018/01/24/tokenization-of-every-little-thing-elt/
  4. #Graphitization of .NET Applications: Marrying Open EA Data with Graph Databases https://hyperonomy.com/2016/10/19/crossing-the-ea-chasm-marrying-open-ea-data-with-graph-databases/
  5. #Graphitization of Ray Dalio’s Principles: Iteration 1 https://hyperonomy.com/2016/12/29/graphitization-of-ray-dalios-principles/
  6. #Graphitization of Ray Dalio’s Principles: Iteration 2 https://hyperonomy.com/2016/12/30/graphitization-of-ray-dalios-principles-iteration-2/
  7. Crossing the EA Chasm: #Graphitization of ArchiMate 3.0 – Iteration 1 https://hyperonomy.com/2017/01/17/crossing-the-ea-chasm-graphitization-of-archimate-3-0/
  8. Crossing the EA Chasm: #Graphitization of ArchiMate 3.0 – Iteration 2 https://hyperonomy.com/2017/02/08/crossing-the-ea-chasm-graphitization-of-archimate-3-0-iteration-2/
  9. Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #1 https://hyperonomy.com/2016/10/22/crossing-the-ea-chasm-automating-enterprise-architecture-modeling/
  10. Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #2 https://hyperonomy.com/2016/11/04/crossing-the-ea-chasm-automating-enterprise-architecture-modeling-2/
  11. Crossing the EA Chasm: ArchiMate “Keep Calm and Have IT Your Way” https://hyperonomy.com/2016/11/17/crossing-the-ea-chasm-archimate-have-it-your-way/
  12. Crossing the EA Chasm: Open Repository Strategies for Enterprise Architecture https://hyperonomy.com/2016/10/04/the-ea-chasm-open-repository-strategies-for-enterprise-architecture/
  13. Crossing the EA Chasm: Enterprise Architecture Diagrams Your Grandmother (and CIO) Will Love https://hyperonomy.com/2016/10/13/archimate-diagrams-your-grandmother-and-cio-will-love/
  14. #Graphitization of ArchiMate: Getting MMOR from ArchiMate using the ModelMate Master Online Repository https://hyperonomy.com/2017/02/10/crossing-the-ea-chasm-how-to-use-the-modelmate-online-repository-mmor/
  15. #Graphitization of the Amazon Leadership Principles (introducing Personal Leadership Principle Maps) – Iteration 1 https://hyperonomy.com/2017/05/08/amazons-principles/
  16. What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale? https://hyperonomy.com/2017/04/10/whats-the-difference-between-improving-the-design-and-operation-of-an-aircraft-engine-a-muscle-car-a-large-enterprise-and-a-commercial-global-cloud-services-platform/

Live Neo4j Models

  1. http://hobby-icgaeohcoeaggbkeabhldpol.dbs.graphenedb.com:24789/browser/ Userid: ModelMate_Master_Datasets10 Password: YqeZAH4ODEJqglkEsK5p

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLU-rWqHm5p46bIDXPNf4c2JP_AOkopnV5

  1. 12. NEO Persistable Classes (NPC) Platform 2.1: Preview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-jiJOZwiFg&list=PLU-rWqHm5p46bIDXPNf4c2JP_AOkopnV5&index=5
  2. NEO Persistable Classes (NPC) Platform 2.0: Deep Dive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj4-m2o94VE&list=PLU-rWqHm5p46bIDXPNf4c2JP_AOkopnV5&index=6
  3. NEO Persistable Classes 1.0: Deep Dive (Video 2 of 3) [Update 1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwteL1BiCjM&list=PLU-rWqHm5p46bIDXPNf4c2JP_AOkopnV5&index=7
  4. NEO Persistable Classes Platform 2.2: Structured Storage & Reusable, Indexed, Non-Fungible Entities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnAxyCAZ1ec&list=PLU-rWqHm5p46bIDXPNf4c2JP_AOkopnV5&index=10

Related Github Projects

  1. SerentityData Entity Compiler (serentitydata-compiler) https://github.com/mwherman2000/serentitydata-compiler/blob/master/README.md
  2. NEO Persistable Classes (NPC) Compiler 2.1 (npcc) – Compiler for the NEO Persistable Classes (NPC) Platform 2.1 https://github.com/mwherman2000/neo-npcc2
  3. NEO Persistable Classes V1.0 – An Efficient Object-Oriented Framework for C#.NEO Smart Contract Development (ORIGINAL) – https://github.com/mwherman2000/neo-persistibleclasses

Recognition

  1. NeoDraw – NEO Persistable Classes Platform 2.0: NEO-Microsoft dApp Competition (4th place prize – USD$15,000) – https://neo.org/blog/details/3074 and https://neo.org/awards.html

Keywords

  • blockchain on-chain data modeling symmetric programming data management .NET C# NEO Stratis Ethereum Technical Case Study Developer Best Practices

1. Large scale enterprise organizations (public and private sector)

The first applications of #Graphitization were in the field of traditional enterprise architecture modeling and analysis:

  • Business Architecture
  • Application Architecture
  • Technology/Infrastructure Architecture

References

  1. #Graphitization of the Enterprise
  2. Crossing the Chasm: Progressive Enterprise Architecture Model (PEAM)
  3. Progressive Enterprise Architecture Maps – Update 2
  4. Using ArchiMate 2.1 to Model Product or Service Markets
  5. ArchiMate 3.0: What is the preferred way to model a Server Farm?
  6. Crossing the EA Chasm: Enterprise Architecture Diagrams Your Grandmother (and CIO) Will Love
  7. Crossing the EA Chasm: Annotating Your EA Models with RACI Roles
  8. Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #1
  9. Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #2
  10. Crossing the Enterprise Architecture Chasm
  11. ModelMate Architecture Reference Model
  12. What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale?
  13. Modeling a Company and Its Locations, Markets, Employees, Investors & Roles: Proposals, Wishes & Dreams

2. Aircraft engines, muscle cars, and other high-performance engine systems

It turns out that the modeling and analysis of any complex system is an ideal candidate for #Graphitization.

References

  1. What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale?

3. Commercial, global-scale, cloud services platforms

One particularly important application is the modeling and analysis of very large, commercial, global-scale, cloud services platforms.

References

  1. What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale?

4. Automated service composition of cloud services-based data systems

Call the solution “Expedia for Microsoft Azure/AWS/SFDC/…” or whatever you prefer, today’s commercial cloud services platforms are still a pain in the ass to use for creating non-trivial applications.  Left, right, and center you have to hand-code a myriad of worker processes simply to reformat and pass data around.

#Graphitization is an optimal approach for modeling the underlying cloud services platform services catalog.

References

  1. MS Azure is a bit of a bucket of bolts …very good bolts …but relative to the other IoT vendors, a bucket of bolts.
  2. What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale?
  3. Microsoft Azure Stack POC Architecture Reference Model (ARM): ArchiMate Model – version 1-0-7 – April 30, 2016

5. Large collaborative ecosystems: employee groups, business partners, social networks

Project “Boston” is named after some potential business partners and the embryo for the idea coming from my months as a founding Groove Networks business partner (including many of my most important relationships that I still maintain today).

6. Large ecosystems of competing or competitive business organizations

Modeling of large ecosystems of competing/competitive business organizations is a straightforward #Graphitization use case.

7. Organization principles and belief systems

On the surface, the #Graphitization of principle and belief-based frameworks is pretty straightforward but this is because the basic #Graphitization serves as the substrate for many advanced data ingestion, analysis, and visualization projects.

Below are the results of the  #Graphitization of two principle and belief-based frameworks:

  • Bridgewater Associates: Ray Dalio’s Principles
  • Amazon: Jeff Bezos’ Amazon Leadership Principles

References

  1. #Graphitization of Ray Dalio’s Principles: Iteration 1
  2. #Graphitization of Ray Dalio’s Principles: Iteration 2
  3. #Graphitization of the Amazon Leadership Principles (introducing Personal Leadership Principle Maps) – Iteration 1

8. Conventional software applications and architectures: desktop, server, and web apps

Modeling of complex, multi-language, multiple runtime software environments is a use case that is an ideal application of #Graphitization.

References

  1. #Graphitization of .NET Applications: Marrying Open EA Data with Graph Databases
  2. Pinc-A Tool For Maintaining Configurable Software in Pascal1
  3. Pinc-A Tool For Maintaining Configurable Software in Pascal2
  4. Pinc-A Tool For Maintaining Configurable Software in Pascal3
  5. Pinc-A Tool For Maintaining Configurable Software in Pascal4
  6. Pinc-A Tool For Maintaining Configurable Software in Pascal5

9. International standards for visual modeling languages

A significant investment has been made in applying #Graphitization to language modeling; specifically, languages for enterprise architecture like ArchiMate.

ArchiMate References

  1. Using ArchiMate 2.1 to Model Product or Service Markets
  2. ArchiMate 3.0: What is the preferred way to model a Server Farm?
  3. How do I model “X” using ArchiMate?
  4. Crossing the EA Chasm: ArchiMate “Keep Calm and Have IT Your Way”
  5. Crossing the EA Chasm: ArchiMate Art
  6. Crossing the EA Chasm: Re-visioning the ArchiMate Specification
  7. Crossing the EA Chasm: Reflections on the Current State of ArchiMate
  8. Crossing the EA Chasm: Re-visioning ArchiMate 3.0 Relations as Verbs
  9. Crossing the EA Chasm: Re-visioning ArchiMate 3.0 Elements as Adjectives [WIP]
  10. Crossing the EA Chasm: #Graphitization of ArchiMate 3.0 – Iteration 1
  11. Crossing the EA Chasm: #Graphitization of ArchiMate 3.0 – Iteration 2 (long but meaty)
  12. #Graphitization of ArchiMate: Getting MMOR from ArchiMate using the ModelMate Master Online Repository

10. Enterprise Data Management

Modeling and analyzing enterprise data structures and stores is a common application of #Graphitization; including the modeling of taxonomies and master data.

References

  1. RE: Managing Master Data With ArchiMate

11. Parallelspace ModelMate

Parallelspace ModelMate is an approach (platform and language framework) for creating domain specific languages (DSLs) for enterprise architecture.  It is realized using #Graphitization and the ArchiMate enterprise architecture modeling language.

References

  1. Crossing the Enterprise Architecture Chasm
  2. Crossing the EA Chasm: Open Repository Strategies for Enterprise Architecture
  3. ModelMate Architecture Reference Model

12. Internet of Things (IoT)

IoT is an interesting beast.  It is a reference to an application service for processing raw events from a device or dynamically generated events from a software system.  IoT also defines a conceptual software and data flow architecture that can also be used for the dynamic creating and maintenance of complex systems such as large enterprise architectures.

References

  1. Subject: MS Azure Services: Is there an overarching architectural vision?
  2. MS Azure is a bit of a bucket of bolts …very good bolts …but relative to the other IoT vendors, a bucket of bolts.
  3. Crossing the EA Chasm: “Where does IoT [Internet of Things] fit in?”

13. Architecture Reference Models (ARMs)

An ARM is easily modeled (and analyzed) using #Graphitization.  SharePoint and Azure Stack are two good examples.

References

  1. ARMs for Model-Driven LOB apps: SharePoint 2013/SharePoint 2016 [Oct. 24, 2016]
  2. Microsoft Azure Stack POC Architecture Reference Model (ARM): ArchiMate Model – version 1-0-7 – April 30, 2016

General References

  1. Continuous Transformation and Transformative Change are key principles of the Total Enterprise Architecture Model (TEAM) (click here)
  2. To dig deeper, check out Graphitization of the Enterprise (click here)
  3. [Enterprise Architecture, Big Data, CRM, ERP, …] Tools and Methods Don’t Generate Business Value (click here)
  4. Crossing the EA Chasm: The Surveyor

Best regards,

Michael Herman
Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist
Parallelspace Corporation
M: 416 524-7702
E: mwherman@parallelspace.net
B: http://hyperonomy.com
L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwherman/recent-activity/posts/
Skype: mwherman2000

Living at the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Knowledge, and Data Science

  • ArchiMate is registered trademark of The Open Group.

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What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of a smart city, an aircraft engine, a muscle car, a large enterprise, and/or an integrated commercial global cloud services platform …all running at hyperscale?

COPYRIGHT © 2016-2017 by Michael Herman, Toronto, Canada. All rights reserved. [Updated June 16, 2018]

Question: What are the differences between improving the design (and operation) of:

  • a smart city,
  • an aircraft engine,
  • a muscle car,
  • a large enterprise, and/or
  • an integrated commercial global cloud services platform
  • …all running at hyperscale?

Answer: None.

Scroll down to see the use cases; then the list of resources at the bottom of this article.

Use Case 1: Aircraft engine, and
Use Case 2: 
Muscle car

Continuous Transformation 2

Figure 1. Continuous Transformation Model: Aircraft Engines and Muscle Cars

Use Case 3: Smart city,
Use Case 4: Large enterprise operating at hyperscale, and
Use Case 5: 
Integrated commercial global cloud services platform operating at hyperscale

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Figure 2. Continuous Transformation Model: Smart Cities, Large Enterprises, and Cloud Services Platforms

Diving Deeper: #Graphitization

To go deeper, checkout #Graphitization of the Enterprise (click here) as well as the list of references below.

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Figure 3. #Graphitization Continuous Transformation Model

 

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Figure 4. Continuous Transformation Framework: Process Groups and Activities

References

  1. Michael Herman, Blockchain Developer, Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist: #Graphitization Inventor  (click here)
  2. Continuous Transformation and Transformative Change are key principles of the Total Enterprise Architecture Model (TEAM) (click here)
  3. To dig deeper, check out Graphitization of the Enterprise (click here)
  4. [Enterprise Architecture, Big Data, CRM, ERP, …] Tools and Methods Don’t Generate Business Value (click here)

Best regards,

Michael Herman
Enterprise Architect and Data Scientist
Parallelspace Corporation
M: 416 524-7702
E: mwherman@parallelspace.net
B: http://hyperonomy.com
L: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mwherman/recent-activity/posts/
Skype: mwherman2000

Living at the intersection of Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Knowledge, and Data Science

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Michael Herman: Award-winning Author, Invited Speaker, Illustrator, and Trainer

COPYRIGHT © 2016-2017 by Michael Herman, Toronto, Canada. All rights reserved.

Feel free to contact me at:

PARTIAL PORTFOLIO

All of the publications below are full-length white papers or technical notes – unless noted otherwise (e.g. presentations, training materials, online product help).

Microsoft Live Communications Server

Client: Microsoft Corporation Live Communications Server Product Group / Microsoft IT Showcase

Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies

Client: Microsoft Corporation SharePoint Product Group / Microsoft IT Showcase

Microsoft Exchange Server

Client: Microsoft Corporation Exchange Server Product Group / Microsoft IT Showcase

Metalogix Replicator for SharePoint

Client: Metalogix, market leading provider of solutions to move, manage and protect content within enterprise collaboration platforms in the cloud and on-premises.

Microsoft “Alchemy”

Client: Microsoft Web Services Product Group / Microsoft IT Showcase

Parallelspace Vulture

Client: Parallelspace Corporation

Tzunami K-Wise Deployer

Client: Tzunami

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#Graphitization of the Enterprise

COPYRIGHT © 2016-2017 by Michael Herman, Toronto Canada. All rights reserved. [Updated June 16, 2018]

This article is the first in a series on #Graphitization. Click here to explore the other articles in this series.

Reprinted from #Graphitization of the Enterprise on LinkedIn.

Move beyond digitalization of the enterprise to graphitization of the enterprise. Here’s a great diagram that explains this concept. (click on the diagram to enlarge it)

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Figure 1. The New Model of IT

Graphitization of not only all of your corporate information assets across all of your constituencies and stakeholders – at the data, application entity, and business object level – but also the graphitization of all of the interconnections between every business process, application system, infrastructure component, cloud service, vendor/service provider, and business role that uses, manages, or stores corporate information (Crossing the EA Chasm: Automating Enterprise Architecture Modeling #2).

Use graphitization to make your existing corporate information more available, more usable, and more informative. Graphitization enables you to “Keep Calm and Have IT Your Way“.

What is #Graphitization?

#Graphitization is a data science and enterprise architecture-inspired framework and process model for modeling, ingesting, organizing, analyzing, and visualizing any domain of endeavor by using graphs – networks of connected objects and relationships with each object and relationship annotated with additional descriptive information (metadata).

The primary applications of #Graphitization are:

  • System optimization,
  • Systems life cycle management, and
  • Transformative Change in resulting in positive increases in business value for the system being studied.

A system is defined as any collection of strategies, system components, assets, architectures or processes.

Using #Graphitization

Use graphitization of your organization to help close both the Enterprise Architecture Chasm and the Operational Data Chasm. See below.

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Figure 2. Continuous Transformation Framework: Enterprise Architecture Chasm and Operational Data Chasm

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Figure 3. Continuous Transformation Framework: Process Groups and Activities

To learn more about other applications of graphitization, check out the following articles:

Best regards and best wishes for the New Year,

Michael Herman (Toronto)
Parallelspace Corporation
mwherman@parallelspace.net

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Web 7.0: a universal, open-source solution for the Internet’s digital identity and trust problems

Web 7.0 is a universal, open-source solution for the Internet’s digital identity and trust problems.

The Internet was created 40 years ago. The World Wide Web application, running on top of the Internet, was created more than 30 years ago. Neither the Internet nor the WWW included built-in support for each person to have their own unique, universal digital identity and, hence, no built-in ability to support secure, authentic, and trusted communications. Every website and mobile app was left to develop, test, and manage its own digital identity solution.

Web 7.0 is a universal, open-source solution for the Internet’s digital identity and trust problems. Web 7.0 is a decentralized operating system for building resilient, secure, and trusted systems on top of the Internet using decentralized identity, trusted personal agents, and verifiable credentials.

Key use cases include:

  • Safe storage and transmission of medical records (lab results, disgnostic imaging, doctor’s notes, vaccinations)
  • Reliable, secure, and trusted end-to-end processing of business transactions (purchase orders, invoices, waybills, delivery confirmations)
  • Secure collaboration (instant messaging, presence, and file transfers)
  • Authenticated exchange of higher-education, professional and skills-based credentials

The goals of the Web 7.0 community are to support, promote, protect, and curate the Web 7.0 software and hardware ecosystem: Web 7.0 operating system software, standards, and specifications.

More details can be found here:

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Web 7.0 DIDComm Notation Template

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NOTE: DIDComm Notation elements are adaptations of the icons provided by Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Office suite. To quote from the Microsoft documentation:

You can insert icons into Microsoft 365 documents. You can rotate, color, and resize them with no loss of image quality. These icons are free to use and there’s no royalty or copyright to worry about.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-icons-in-microsoft-365-e2459f17-3996-4795-996e-b9a13486fa79?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

In addition, …

You may sell a spreadsheet, database, or PowerPoint deck you made using Microsoft software. The spreadsheet, database, or PowerPoint deck must be created using legitimate, licensed Microsoft software.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal/intellectualproperty/copyright/permissions

Finally, …

What am I allowed to use premium creative content for?
Excel for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for the web SharePoint in Microsoft 365


If you’re a Microsoft 365 subscriber you have access to thousands of royalty-free images, icons, and more that you can use in your documents, presentations, workbooks, and SharePoint in Microsoft 365. But you may have questions about what you’re legally allowed to do with that creative content. This article will try to answer that!

You can use the content for anything permitted by the applicable Microsoft 365 license so you should review your End-User License Agreement (EULA) to understand exactly what you can do with works created in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint.

Simply put… You can use the premium images and other creative content however you see fit, as long as it’s within an Microsoft 365 app or SharePoint site. For commercial customers, this includes selling PowerPoint slide decks, Excel workbooks, or Word documents that include this content, just as you would have sold these files in the past.

This includes exporting the Microsoft 365 file to another format. You can modify the picture, use it in the file forever, and use it anywhere in the world. Basically, do the same things that you would have done with Microsoft 365 documents in the past, but now you can include the stock images and other content from the Insert Pictures dialog.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/what-am-i-allowed-to-use-premium-creative-content-for-0de69c76-ff2b-473e-b715-4d245e39e895

Click on the figure below to download current version of the Web 7.0 DIDComm Notation Template.

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Web 7.0 Standard Base (WSB) Specification Set

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Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Parallelspace Corporation. January 2023.

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Microsoft Entra Verified ID SDK: Developer Resources

Microsoft Entra Verified ID SDK: Developer Resources

  1. Overview – https://youtu.be/ByheAyHKPEY
  2. Setup and Configuration – https://youtu.be/LMNP2pi1bpU
  3. Create your first credential, customize your credential, issuance & verification flows – https://youtu.be/2RRqFNthLgw
  4. Service Request API and Admin APIs – https://youtu.be/xTY82US6fF8
  5. GitHub samples – https://youtu.be/c3fOHb48M14 (http://aka.ms/vcsample)

Microsoft Entra Verified ID SDK: Video Playlist

Web 7.0 Evaluation

Currently under evaluation as the primary identity system for Web 7.0:

Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

https://hyperonomy.com/2022/12/18/web-7-0-didcomm-agent-architecture-reference-model-didcomm-arm-0-40-december-18-2022/

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Proposal 4: DID Communications (DIDComm) Protocol as the basis for a Unified Trust Spanning Layer Base Protocol 0.31 (FINAL 5)

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Version 0.31 of Proposal 4 presents a compelling story (with irrefutable evidence and examples) supporting the selection of the DID Communications (DIDComm) protocol as the Trust Spanning Layer Base Protocol for any and all decentralized system ecosystems:

  • Web 7.0 DIDComm-ARM
  • ToIP Technical Architecture Specification (ToIP TAS)
  • etc.

Please enjoy the following downloadable presentation. I look forward to your comments and feedback. A downloadable version of the Web 7.0 DIDComm Notation Template is also listed below.

Change Log

Downloadable Presentation

Click below to download version 0.31 of the Proposal 4: DID Communications (DIDComm) Protocol as the basis for a Unified Trust Spanning Layer Base Protocol 0.31 presentation.

Downloadable Web 7.0 DIDComm Notation Template

Feedback

Please post your feedback to Freddy Architect at @FreddyArchitect on Twitter. This identity is constantly being monitored by the author.

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Mapping the Web 7.0 DIDComm/HTTP Architecture Reference Model to the ToIP Trust Spanning Layer Framework

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Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Parallelspace Corporation. January 2023.

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Web 7.0 DIDComm-ARM vs. TBD Web5 DWP Stack

Here’s a link to the voice-over/narrative for the following slides: https://youtu.be/1XnPWmpkGro?t=630s

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Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Parallelspace Corporation. January 2023.

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January 18, 2023 · 11:56 am

DIDComm Message Attachment Types

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Here’s a sampling…

NOTE: Verifiable credentials are an obvious DIDComm Message Attachment Type. For this reason, VCs are missing from the following list.

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One’s Journey to the Grave – Hunter S. Thompson

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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Hyperledger Identity Implementers WG – January 12, 2023

Mission

Web 7.0 is a unified software and hardware ecosystem for building resilient, trusted, decentralized systems using decentralized identifiers, DIDComm agents, and verifiable credentials.

Take what you need; leave the rest.

Michael Herman, Trusted Digital Web Project, Hyperonomy Digital Identity Lab, Parallelspace Corporation. January 2023.

Other Web 7.0 Resources

Also check out Welcome to Web 7.0 (including a link to the whitepaper): https://hyperonomy.com/2022/12/12/welcome-to-web-7-0/

Today’s Presentation

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