# My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper is now online! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [66]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: document (Text), 2007-09-14 (from the career record), http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290. Text: document text - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the start (Hexayurt, 2002), before the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Announces the identity architecture behind Harappa-style accounts. - Career works it belongs to: - CheapID (2006): Design for a sub-$1 identity card, written for the US Office of the Secretary of Defense, that keeps... - State in a Box (2006): State in a Box: a plan to rebuild a state on distributed infrastructure, written for reconstruction... - In a Page (2010): A series of one-page papers, mostly from spring 2010, each putting one argument on a single sheet. (suggested by machine) - Taking a crack at a practical system (introducing the ESCROWNYM) (2012): Blog essay proposing the escrownym: an identity lodged with escrow brokers under a legally binding... (suggested by machine) - One Network, One World: Designing for a 7+ Billion Person World (2013): Talk at the OHM2013 hacker camp: housing everyone at one planet's worth of consumption, and why... (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - CheapID to Mattereum: One identity pattern, from a person's ID card in 2006 to warranties on physical goods in 2017. - cryptographic applications: Cryptography applied: from 1990s cypherpunk practice to identity cards, Ethereum and Mattereum. - cyber and defense: Security work for defense clients, built on one idea: set rivals to check each other. Resilience and Opportunity in... - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. - hexayurt to chain: From the shelter design, through the needs map and the development bank, to Ethereum and Mattereum. (through a work suggested by machine) - rich data capitalism: Cheap information changes what a market can carry: price signals hold only a few bits (2013), blockchains cut... (through a work suggested by machine) - Ideas developed here: CheapID / identity for everyone; State in a Box - Topics: ESCROWNYM / cryptographic ethics / People’s Cloud (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: State In A Box (3 here; 10 sources in all, earliest dated 2006, 3 undated); Bermuda (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2007); SSTR (1 here; 8 sources in all, earliest dated 2006) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): Bermuda - Importance: core-text score 0.63 (1.00 is the top), number 37 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [34] [State in a Box (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md): same career work: State in a Box - [31] [guptaoption.com/4.SIAB-ISA.php (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/31.md): same career work: CheapID - On the same works, just before: [35] [CheapID (2006)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/35.md); [101] [Hexayurt project/Mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/101.md); [15] [Nuclear / mass evacuation (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/15.md) - On the same works, just after: [59] [Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In... (2007)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md); [33] [Soft Development Paths (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/33.md); [70] [The systemic risks model for survival | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2008)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/70.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper is now online! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution, document, 2007-09-14, http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [66], https://guptaoption.com/texts/66.md. ## Passages [passage 1](http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/hexayurt/my-state-in-a-box-identity-services-architecture-paper-is-now-online-290) State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture – fifty pages of brain-breaking Gupta-at-his-finest assault on business as usual thinking about biometrics and liberty. From the abstract: State In A Box presents a coherent vision of overhauling the fundamental assumptions made about nation state infrastructure to enable breakthroughs in SSTR functions. The Identity Services Architecture presented enables low cost, high security financial transaction infrastructure to be rolled out using 2D bar codes, public key cryptography, camera phones and biometrics in a novel configuration which both protects civil liberties and provides strong identity information for legal processes. Furthermore, an approach to international control of a single international biometric database is presented based on the chaordic work of Dee Hock, the architect of VISA. The assessment at the heart of this paper is that the benefits of a correctly-designed rights-respecting cross-jurisdictional chaordic governance structure cannot be forgone if we are to see a realistic implementation of biometrics as an enabling technology for development. We anticipate the cost of issuing an ID using this technology to be less than $1 per head. Now, of course, you’re wondering what this has to do with the Hexayurt. The answer is everything. Hexayurts do individual infrastructure. State in a box does state infrastructure. In between there’s a missing piece called “The Citadel” which does municipal infrastructure. Put it together and you have everything you need to restore, rebuild, reboot or just plain start nation states. As corporations spread through the 19th and 20th centuries, from a handful of entities created by the writ of kings and queens, so I believe it will go for Sovereignty itself. The various forms of the “sovereign individual” movement are making glacially slow but steady progress, and corporations attack sovereignty itself by doing all of their business in America and paying taxes in Bermuda. Soon somebody will figure out how to get sovereign status without owning their own army, probably by a franchising / defensive services architecture as Ken McLeod discusses at length in his work, and you begin to imagine a patch of land in some African country which has a different State for every square mile, and every single one of them is basically some internet servers and a mail drop. Say AAARRRRR if you’re with me. PS: This post made in honor of the upcoming International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Most people take that instruction at a “syntactic” level and think that one must simply say ARRRR and so on to be talking like a pirate. I find that to be inadequate for my own deepest Pirate Nature, therefore I decided to talk like a pirate at a syntactic level for the entire week. --- End of [66] My State In A Box – Identity Services Architecture paper is now online! | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [59](https://guptaoption.com/texts/59.md) Security + Privacy = Liberty. And the CheapID / State In... (2007); the most closely related, [34](https://guptaoption.com/texts/34.md) State in a Box (2006); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.