[WIP] RFC: Profiles

[baiirun]

WIP

Motivation

The Geo knowledge graph is meant to enable communities to govern over which data is canonical in their space (see #740). This means that representing a Person or a Profile is dependent on the space's view of that entity. Additionally, since Geo is permissionless, anybody can pretend to be anybody or anything. It's up to an individual space (and Geo's global curation model) to determine which representation of an entity is the accurate one to them.

We provide a data model for defining these canonical entities, but we still need to provide a way to query a Person or Project dependent on which space it's being viewed from.

Handling “web of trust” for People and Projects

• We store Person and Project representations of entities for each space in the "authoritative" graph.
  authoritative graph vs. ???

• Handling wallets? How do we make the association between an entity and the wallets it claims to control?

• Track all superspaces for any space

  • If a superspace list contains Root then it’s authoritative

• Track which spaces are canonical for each Person and Project

• People table + canonical

  • Many to many wallets → people. Just show the first one and figure out where it’s wrong
  • Can make the association between the People table and the Wallet when the canonical triple appears in any public space