Before revision: We envision a self-sovereign community that defines itself from the grass roots, bottom up, in a decentralized manner. In a different paper we show how a digital community can grow by using a trust graph and maintaining a bound on the number of fake identities. In another paper we show how this trust graph can integrate into a consensus protocol, to maintain a distributed ledger of the history of the community, while maintaining governance over the list of members.
After revision: We envision a self-sovereign community that defines itself from the grass roots, bottom up, decentralized manner, and aim to integrate for it the following previously-proposed building blocks: a mechanism that accepts members into the community while keeping a bounded number of sybils; digital social contracts that define the possible interactions of a community bounded by such a contract; a design for a fault-tolerant distributed ledger implementation of digital social contracts; and a digital social contract for the egalitarian and just minting of the history of the community, while maintaining governance over the list of members.