An Identity Management Protocol For Multi-Identifier Network

Abstract

Since the birth of the Internet, there has been no identity management design at the network architecture level, leaving each service and platform to build its own identity system. As a new future network architecture, the Multi-Identifier Network considers identity design at the beginning of network design. It uses a blockchain-based Multi-Identifier System to manage identities. However, there is no unified design for the definition, application and revocation process of identity. In this paper, we propose a definition of identity format and design an operational logic for identity application, query and revocation. For the encoding method of the protocol, we compare the packet size and encoding speed between Protobuf and TLV methods.