Rebooting the Web of Trust

Series of design workshops on decentralised identity and trust, started by Christopher Allen in 2015, whose collaboratively written papers fed into DIDs and Verifiable Credentials. The twelfth was held in Cologne in September 2023; the thirteenth, planned for October 2024, was cancelled for lack of support, and the papers now survive on GitHub.

See the archived site ↗ web.archive.org · 23 Aug 2026 On GitHub ↗

The website is offline. weboftrust.info no longer works (the domain is parked; checked 22 Oct 2026), so the button opens the last copy the Wayback Machine saved, from 23 Aug 2026.

influenced

• Decentralized Identifiers standard 2022 [src]

builds on

• Web of trust concept 1992 [src]

founded by

• Christopher Allen person (2015) [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• end: No end has been announced. RWOT12 (Cologne, September 2023) is the last workshop held; RWOT13 was cancelled on 26 August 2024 for lack of support, the website became an archive of papers in July 2026, and its domain was parked by October 2026.

Sources

• https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/website/blob/gh-pages/_posts/2024-08-26-rwot13-cancelled.md
• https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot12-cologne
• https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/website/commit/a82c71e
• https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo