Common Graph

Sistema / Design de Identidade

Foundational architecture proposal — "Frames All the Way Down" — for a peer-to-peer network in which every assertion is a signed semantic frame, every coherent thing is an item, and the network is organized by trust rather than servers. The proposal rests on two pillars: (1) a semantic commons grounded in fifty years of computational linguistics (WordNet, CILI, FrameNet, VerbNet) used as the substrates data model — keys are grounded meanings rather than strings, with meaning resolved at write time by the asserter; (2) a peer-to-peer layer in which trust drives routing, moderation, replication, code execution, and discovery — generalized from the PGP web of trust. Structural properties claimed include peer review on every public assertion, moderation as views rather than policy, applications interchangeable on shared data, and software distributed through a trust graph rather than a registry. Note: domain specificity criterion read broadly here — Common Graphs primary contribution is to the data + trust layer rather than to identity strictly, but the architectural-proposal-with-paper-and-early-implementation profile maps cleanly onto ID Sys

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Licença Reference implementation at github.com/joshualibrarian/common-graph (license per repository); paper itself CC BY 4.0
Status de Dev 🔨 Em desenvolvimento
Detalhe do Status de Dev Pre-spec / Concept — 36-page paper published Apr 2026 (CC BY 4.0); reference implementation in active development; explicitly noted as "not ready for use beyond development"
Proprietário Joshua Chambers (independent researcher / developer; joshualibrarian on GitHub)
Órgão de Governança Founder / single maintainer (Joshua Chambers, independent researcher)
País Not specified
Ano de Início 2026
Stack Reference implementation in active development; details not finalized
Financiamento Independent / not specified
Última Investigação 1 de jul. de 2026

Domínios de Caso de Uso

Identidade e Confiança

Capacidades

Prova de humanidade Portabilidade do grafo de confiança Identidade soberana

Sistema / Design de Identidade Atributos

Origens Joshua Chambers — independent research synthesizing computational linguistics and PGP-style web of trust
Banco de Dados TBD — Common Graph proposes a substrate where every assertion is a signed semantic frame and every coherent thing is an item; concrete database/storage model is part of the reference implementation under active development
Linguagem de Consulta TBD — frames as semantic data structure suggest graph-query semantics; specifics in the reference implementation rather than the paper
Formatos de Dados Signed semantic frames (proposed); items as coherent things; meaning grounded in WordNet / CILI / FrameNet / VerbNet vocabularies rather than strings
Suporte Móvel TBD — design is platform-agnostic; implementation status pre-deployment
Suporte Web TBD — implementation status pre-deployment
Aplicativos Nativos TBD — no shipping reference application; reference implementation under active development per release notes
Termos Paper CC BY 4.0; reference implementation per repository
Fundos Unknown — Joshua Chambers as independent researcher; specific funding for ongoing work not publicly disclosed
Baseado Em PGP web of trust (generalized); WordNet, Collaborative Interlingual Index (CILI), FrameNet, VerbNet (semantic commons foundation); public-key cryptography
Autenticação e Identidade Public-key cryptography; trust-graph-based authentication where each runtime computes its own trust scores rather than relying on a global trust authority
Modelo de Armazenamento Distributed peer-to-peer with trust-driven replication; each peer stores what its trust graph indicates is relevant
Interoperabilidade Designed for application interchangeability on shared data — applications operate over a common semantic graph rather than maintaining isolated databases
Portabilidade de Dados By architectural commitment — data not tied to applications because meanings are grounded in shared computational-linguistics substrate (WordNet, CILI, FrameNet, VerbNet) rather than platform-defined schemas; trust-anchored authorship
Governança e Tomada de Decisão Trust-graph-based — moderation as views computed by each runtime rather than as centralized policy; each runtime computes its own trust scores; no global trust score; no platform-defined schema; peer review on every public assertion as a structural property of the design
Padrões de Identidade Self-defined; rooted in PGP web-of-trust generalization rather than W3C DID or other identity standards
Métodos DID Suportados TBD / N/A — the proposal questions the platform-mediated identifier paradigm itself rather than implementing a DID method; could potentially bridge to DID methods if conformance becomes a priority but this is not the architectural direction
Gestão de Chaves PGP-derived patterns — web-of-trust key verification generalized to drive routing, moderation, replication, code execution, and discovery; specifics in the reference implementation
Tipos de Credenciais Signed semantic frames as the universal credential primitive — every assertion is a signed frame; every coherent thing is an item; uniformity at the data-model level rather than separate credential schema systems
Método de Verificação Cryptographic signature on every assertion (semantic frame); trust-graph traversal for endorsement-based verification
Recursos de Privacidade Per-runtime trust computation (no global trust score); routing privacy claimed (paper includes detailed analysis)
Métodos de Autenticação Public-key signatures on semantic frames; trust-graph-based identity assertions
Mecanismo de Revogação Trust-graph-based — revocation expressed as trust-graph updates rather than registry-based revocation lists; each runtime's local trust computation reflects updated trust assertions
Tipos de Agentes Suportados Humans (primary use case); applicable to any party with a key pair and trust relationships; potentially extensible to institutions and software agents
Tipos de Carteira/Cliente TBD — no shipping wallet/client; reference implementation pre-deployment
Mecanismos de Recuperação TBD — PGP-style key management precedents available; specifics in the reference implementation
Conformidade / Regulamentações Not evaluated — pre-spec architectural proposal at concept stage
Protocolos de Troca de Credenciais Frames-as-credentials — every assertion is a signed semantic frame; exchange happens via the trust-organized P2P layer; specific protocol bindings TBD
Estrutura de Confiança Web-of-trust generalized to drive all major network functions (routing, moderation, replication, code execution, discovery) — no central authority, no platform-defined schema, no global trust score
Modelo de Custo Free — paper licensed CC BY 4.0; reference implementation open source; no platform fees by architectural commitment
Resistência à Censura Inherent to design — trust-driven routing replaces server-mediated routing; moderation is local view-based rather than policy-enforced