This paper presents, for the first time, the Mediterraneous protocol. It is designed to support the development of an Internet of digital services, owned by their creators, and consumed by users by presenting their decentralised digital identity and a proof of service purchase. Mediterraneous is Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) native, integrating the SSI model at the core of its working principles to overcome the limitations resulting from using pseudonyms and centralised access control of existing Web3 solutions.

翻译：本文首次提出了Mediterraneous协议。该协议旨在支持一个数字服务互联网的发展，其中服务由其创建者拥有，用户通过呈现其去中心化数字身份和服务购买证明来消费这些服务。Mediterraneous本质上是自我主权身份（SSI）原生的，将SSI模型整合到其工作原则的核心，以克服现有Web3解决方案因使用假名和中心化访问控制而产生的局限性。