First Steps of the PLC Organization – Independent Public Ledger of Credentials
The Public Ledger of Credentials Organization has been formally established as a Swiss association to independently operate the PLC directory. This non-profit entity aims to provide public identity infrastructure for Internet applications by managing cryptographic account identifiers. The organization has completed initial administrative setup and is preparing to take over directory operations from Bluesky Social PBC.
- ▪The PLC directory is a system that collects and distributes updates to AT Protocol accounts using cryptographic signatures to prevent tampering.
- ▪The organization is structured as a Swiss association, meaning it has no owners or shareholders and is governed by its members under Swiss law.
- ▪Initial board members include prominent security researchers and protocol engineers such as Richard Barnes, Thyla van der Merwe, and Wendy Seltzer.
- ▪Bluesky Social PBC provided a bootstrap payment to fund the initial administrative steps, including defining statutes and securing a bank account.
- ▪The next major step for the organization is to define governance policies and take over the assets and operations of the PLC directory.
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Public Ledger of Credentials OrganizationFirst steps of the PLC organizationplcred.orgSeptember 28, 202614 5One year ago, Bluesky Social PBC announced their intention to facilitate the creation of an independent organization to operate the Public Ledger of Credentials (PLC) directory.We are happy to announce the Public Ledger of Credentials Organization now formally exists, and has taken the first administrative steps towards being able to independently operate the directory!What is the PLC directory?The PLC directory is a system that collects and distributes updates to AT Protocol accounts, which are identified by random-looking strings like did:plc:i65vdx4ylh5ahdjyd7f2gpnp.
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