# Digital identity — a thread from the writing of Anivar A Aravind

Identity infrastructure as a decision system: what a credential asserts, and what it leaves out about the person named in it.

Canonical: https://anivar.net/topics/digital-identity/
Each essay negotiates to markdown via Accept: text/markdown at its URL.
The thread reads in order:

1. Wrappers, Not Records (2026-07-11) — The World Bank has standardised the digital wallet. Its record names the person a credential describes, and has no field for the person a decision is about. — https://anivar.net/writing/wrappers-not-records/
2. The Wallet in Your Pocket Now Holds Your National Identity (2026-07-19) — Your national identity now sits beside your airline miles, and the next hand to present it will not be yours — https://anivar.net/writing/the-wallet-in-your-pocket-now-holds/

## Other threads
- Agentic governance — https://anivar.net/topics/agentic-governance/
- Sovereignty — https://anivar.net/topics/sovereignty/
- Provenance — https://anivar.net/topics/provenance/
- Memory — https://anivar.net/topics/memory/
- Commerce — https://anivar.net/topics/commerce/
- Open weights — https://anivar.net/topics/open-weights/
- Institutions — https://anivar.net/topics/institutions/