UCAN Presentation Prep

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We’ll gather together and share presentations we’re giving during the week to do a final review.

Resources

UCAN Community website https://ucan.xyz

UCAN WG Github https://github.com/ucan-wg/

Wiki page on Fission Discourse forum https://talk.fission.codes/t/user-controlled-authorization-networks-ucan-resources/1122

Presentations:

• UCAN: How to make the internet web3, from the inside out
• An Introduction to UCAN
• UCAN for FileCoin

[boris]

UCAN Stickers

• document sticker protocol – make it easy for everyone to order some

UCAN Summit

• Around DappCon / CASA in mid September / Berlin
• https://github.com/ucan-wg/spec/discussions/82
• PLN Lab Week TBD

UCANTO

• everything RPC, should be able to extract
• to be re-used elsewhere
• validation code – most advanced one

ts-ucan

• in progress of being mono-repo-ized by @dholms
• some React Native use cases – WebCrypto doesn’t work
• need to choose our defaults wisely
• ucan-core – zero dependency
• did-default - various keys, edwards curves, etc
• ucan-did – generated combo of those two as single library
• this might evolve to have some WASM components as well
• via @cdata, check out GitHub - google/wireit: Wireit upgrades your npm scripts to make them smarter and more efficient. – reproducible builds

Can point to this post / thread as meta-questions during IPFS Thing event

UCAN Questions Slack thread - boris TODO

rs-ucan

• two crates right now

Later: from @cdata, capture “why UCAN?”

• one page on UCANs in context
• topology
• relationship between clients and servers
• led to UCANs

Latest subconscious post covers thought process and why UCANs at the end:

Soulbinding Like a State

UCANxyz

• look at it, do some edits
• add link to WG discussions directly on home page

Hugo

• permission delegations are cool
• UCANTO – UCAN based RPC
• client server naming is awkward – send/receiver, node, actor, etc.
• how can we do an upgrade for other systems that use bearer tokens → upgrade to UCAN
  • maybe CID as shared secret?
  • instead of API token
  • needs a longer write up

Bastion Zero might be good to look at for managed access to lots of different services https://www.bastionzero.com/

TODO UCAN Capability Registry / Standard Library

• partially discovery, partially showing what other people are doing
• CRUD set of actions should be able to be applied to “whatever”
• zkapld is possibly heading towards only having read and write as two caps? @expede to have a look over there
• start thread on WG – book a call to discuss

TODO Create a session at 1600 Thursday for general UCAN interest