{"repo":"ucan-wg/spec","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/ucan-wg/spec","clone":"git clone https://github.com/ucan-wg/spec.git","description":"User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) Specification","language":null,"stars":288,"topics":["authorization","auth","specification","spec","capability","spki","capability-based","token","jwt"],"license":null,"category":"auth-billing-email","readme_excerpt":"User Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) Specification Version 1.0.0 Editors - [Brooklyn Zelenka], [Witchcraft Software] Authors - [Irakli Gozalishvili], [Protocol Labs] - [Daniel Holmgren], [Bluesky] - [Philipp Krüger], [number zero] - [Brooklyn Zelenka], [Witchcraft Software] Sub-Specifications - [UCAN Delegation][delegation] - [UCAN Invocation][invocation] - [UCAN Promise][promise] - [UCAN Revocation][revocation] Language The key words \"MUST\", \"MUST NOT\", \"REQUIRED\", \"SHALL\", \"SHALL NOT\", \"SHOULD\", \"SHOULD NOT\", \"RECOMMENDED\", \"NOT RECOMMENDED\", \"MAY\", and \"OPTIONAL\" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [BCP 14] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. Abstract User-Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) is a [trustless], secure, [local-first], user-originated, distributed authorization scheme. This document provides a high level overview of the components of the system, concepts, and motivation. Exact formats are given in [sub-specifications]. Introduction User-Controlled Authorization Network (UCAN) is a [trustless], secure, [local-first], user-originated, distributed authorization scheme. It provides public-key verifiable, delegable, expressive, openly extensible [capabilities]. UCANs achieve public verifiability with late-bound certificate chains and principals represented by [decentralized identifiers (DIDs)][DID]. UCAN improves the familiarity and adoptability of schemes like [SPKI/SDSI][SPKI] for web and native applicat","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/ucan-wg","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/ucan-wg/spec/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}