About identity: there is also an internal aspect to it. Actually I would contend it starts there. Identity is who we are, how we perceive ourselves to be, before we start interacting with others and way before we come in contact with concepts such as authority.
Here, for the Ressolid project, we are talking about extending the reach of the physical person into a new, blockchain-powered digital realm. When doing that, we need to strike a reasonable balance between
- strength of the coupling: the stronger the link between the physical person and its Ressolid avatar, the higher the trust
- practicality: the stronger the link we aim for, the less practical it is to create and maintain, which indirectly acts as a barier at onboarding people.
Indeed we agree that probably 3 elements is the "goldilocks number": not too many to put people off yet not too little to make the link fragile