From credentials to contextual trust.

Direct answers

The proposal, without the architecture diagram.

What is the Internet of Value proposing to Networks for Humanity?

A bounded interoperability pilot: DeDi would resolve public community and issuer authority, OpenCred would carry one approved credential, and the IoV protocol stack would govern the evidence and validation process that precedes issuance.

What belongs in DeDi?

Public trust infrastructure: recognised communities, authority scopes, issuer DIDs and keys, credential schemas, policy versions, service endpoints, and revocation or supersession state.

Should a person’s complete Wellbeing Identity be listed in DeDi?

No. A complete Wellbeing Identity, private Wellbecoming state, Value Log evidence, validator reasoning, and public member roster are outside the proposed directory boundary.

What is the first proposed credential?

A synthetic or explicitly approved GFE Skill Attainment credential. Growth Flow Engineering defines the skill rubric and governs assessment; OpenCred packages the minimized approved claim for the holder.

What role does HouseOfBros play?

HouseOfBros is the wellbeing and wellbecoming community, not the GFE skill authority. It may publish its community authority and later issue only narrow attestations covered by its own declared policy.

Is this already an NFH partnership or implemented integration?

No. This is a public working proposal. OpenCred formats, APIs, status mechanisms, wallet hand-offs, and DeDi verifier details remain questions for joint technical discovery.

01 · Correct community model

HouseOfBros is the wellbeing community. GFE is the skill community.

Both can participate in the same trust infrastructure, but they do not have the same mandate. DeDi should make each authority scope explicit so recognition never becomes implied permission to issue.

02 · Responsibility architecture

One claim travels. Authority remains separated.

VHTTP is proposed as the human-interaction envelope around this sequence. It does not replace W3C credentials, DeDi, OpenCred, Word Wallet, or the four canonical IoV protocols.

1. 01Capture

   ~ValueCaptureProtocol

   Creates the TimeSlice, actor attribution, proof references, community context, and immutable ProtocolLinkId.

2. 02Interpret

   ~WellbecomingProtocol

   Routes the occurrence through one primary Wellbecoming node. Private inner-state records remain private by default.

3. 03Validate

   ~SAOcommons

   For Performance only, applies a Learning, Earning, or OrgBuilding policy and produces a governed attestation.

4. 04Project

   ~WellbeingIdentity

   Receives the validated skill or certification into Skills and EarnedIdentity without making the complete identity public.

5. 05Issue

   OpenCred

   Packages the approved claim as a holder-controlled verifiable credential after the upstream judgment is complete.

6. 06Resolve

   DeDi

   Lets a verifier discover community authority, issuer key, schema, policy version, and current status.

03 · DeDi publication profile

Publish authority, not private identity.

The proposed verified namespace is theinternetofvalue.org. The names and fields below are a non-normative IoV profile for technical discussion with NFH.

{
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/credentials/v2",
    "https://spec.theinternetofvalue.org/contexts/gfe-skill-v0.1"
  ],
  "id": "urn:uuid:<credential-id>",
  "type": ["VerifiableCredential", "GfeSkillAttainmentCredential"],
  "issuer": "did:web:growthflowengineering.xyz",
  "validFrom": "<RFC3339 timestamp>",
  "credentialSubject": {
    "id": "did:iov:member:<uuid-v4>",
    "skillSystem": "GFE-x.y.z",
    "marketingLevel": "Lx",
    "salesLevel": "Ly",
    "financeLevel": "Lz",
    "community": "~Growth Flow Engineering~",
    "attestationRef": "urn:iov:attestation:<opaque-id>",
    "evidenceDigest": "sha256:<holder-safe-digest>",
    "policy": {
      "id": "gfe-skill-attestation",
      "version": "<version>",
      "contentHash": "sha256:<policy-hash>"
    }
  },
  "credentialSchema": {
    "id": "https://spec.theinternetofvalue.org/schemas/gfe-skill-v0.1.json",
    "type": "JsonSchema"
  },
  "credentialStatus": {
    "id": "<OpenCred status reference>",
    "type": "<mechanism confirmed with NFH>"
  }
}

Non-normative draft. OpenCred proof format, status type, context support, and exchange protocol require NFH confirmation.

06 · Lifecycle and redress

Trust continues after issuance.

Credential history, community attestation, identity projection, and directory state remain separate but traceable. Corrections create new records; they do not rewrite the past.

1. 01

   Observed

   A private occurrence is recorded. No credential exists.

2. 02

   Validated

   The community applies a declared policy; an append-only attestation records the decision.

3. 03

   Issued

   OpenCred packages the approved, minimized claim for the holder.

4. 04

   Presented

   The holder chooses a verifier, purpose, scope, and presentation.

5. 05

   Challenged

   A dispute references the original attestation and policy; prior history is preserved.

6. 06

   Superseded or revoked

   A new decision and status event replace the active claim without deleting the old record.

07 · HouseOfBros boundary

Recognisable as a community. Never a public wellbeing leaderboard.