P2P Decision Context

Definition

Single or chained peer-to-peer interactions or transactions that may be online or offline. The P2P decision context is inside the jurisdiction of the digital identity ecosystem. A single digital identity ecosystem contains many P2P decision contexts in spacetime. The harms experienced in this context are direct harms.

Sources of harm in this context are an imbalance of power between the parties in the transaction or conflicting objectives of the parties, e.g. one is a bad actor, or a failure of governance or technology.

Purpose

Distinguish from other contexts in the human harms framework.

Criterion

Examples

An online purchase, sending and receiving an email, playing a game, registering for a service.

Related concepts

• direct harm
• digital identity ecosystem
• transaction

Tags

#harmstf