Human Participation through ~WellbeingIdentity

More than an account

~WellbeingIdentity is a protocol for contextual human representation. A facilitated workshop is one way a person may form and examine that identity; it is not required for anonymous use of a registered expression. The canonical identity has eight nodes: Given Identity, Earned Identity, Rented Identity, Skills, Moral Compass, Story, Identity State, and Consent and Disclosure.

A DID is one facet within this larger identity. It supplies a stable identifier anchor. It does not contain the person's full identity and must not become a public container for sensitive workshop material.

Four distinct objects

The implementation separates:

1. DID: a nonsemantic Phase 1 identifier in the form did:iov:member:<UUID>.
2. Workshop record: evidence that all required nodes and facets were addressed, including states such as self-attested, evidenced, withheld, not-applicable, or unknown.
3. Completion credential: a revocable eligibility claim issued after the workshop satisfies the protocol contract.
4. Public profile: a deliberately limited publication surface selected for public understanding.

Completeness does not mean forced disclosure. A facet may be explicitly withheld and still count as addressed. This preserves the distinction between participation and exposure.

The Cortisol Checker public content score requires none of these identity layers. A participant with a verified Wellbeing Identity binding may separately add one self-reported impact score and select which canonical identity facets the text touched. Publicly disclosed values may provide context; private values never enter the handler or calculation, and the identity record is not automatically updated.

Observer and creator roles

Anyone may use the bounded public analysis mode. Creating a registered-expression draft requires an active workshop-completion credential. This higher threshold establishes accountable creation, but it does not automatically register or activate the draft.

The first founding-author record bootstraps this model from an existing author identity and maps it across the full workshop. It is an implementation precedent, not a claim that public biographical sources can silently complete other people's identities. Any future workshop remains a separate, participant-controlled process.

Multiple people

The public website should curate people as nested profiles under WellbeingIdentity, not as a leaderboard. Each profile should explain its publication basis, disclosed nodes, workshop status, and revision path without publishing private facets.

References and grounding

• WellbeingIdentity workshop schema
• Public WellbeingIdentity profiles
• W3C DID Core
• W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0