“Digital-Ji-in”: A Framework for Sustainable Digital Identification Records Based on A Peer-to-peer Network
Résumé
This paper presents the concept of Digital Ji-in, a framework for managing permanent digital identifiers whose structure is based on a peer to peer network. The origin of the term Digital-Ji-in is explained in the paper. We describe several types of identifiers and explain why their management is already an important issue. We show that some identifiers have been reused, creating significant problems. We propose a framework for maintaining identifier information safely over a long period of time. We present its structure based on a secure network of peers. We also describe some use cases of this framework. However, as only identifiers are recorded mechanically, problems may arise if data should be associated with them. We discuss this issue at the end of the paper.